Last week Wang Chen, director of the Information Department revealed that they have been working to abolish anonymous comments on the websites for the past year and claims success, and that such efforts will continue. Wang says this is in order to stop harmful information from China's enemies entering China.
RFA commentators Shi Dong and Zhang Weiguo made the following comments:
SD. This is counter-productive; if everyone has to reveal their real name before commenting online, netizens will do so; they cannot put everyone in prison.
ZWG. This is a good example of " Chinese characteristics". The Internet in China is becoming a Local Area Network, which defeats the original purpose of the Internet.
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