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For all online account-based services, such as social media and comment functions on news web sites, users will be obliged to register with their real identity, which must be verified by the online platform.
Furthermore, Internet users must, when opening their account, commit to respect a list of seven "baselines": laws and regulations, the Socialist system, the national interest, citizens' lawful rights and interest, the public order, social moral customs and the veracity of information.
The first challenge for any authority to successfully regulate the Internet is identifiability: the ability to find out who did what from where. The Chinese leadership has, over the past few years, consistently held that Internet users must be held to standards of responsibility and civility online, and these rules help them connect acts with actors.
They also want to ensure that it is clear which online information comes from where, in order to control the spread of information online. Last year, for instance, it was stipulated that only registered news outlets could operate public WeChat accounts carrying current affairs-related content.
Moreover, although the regulations don't explicitly mention this, real-name registration certification usually takes place on the basis of identity card numbers. Last June, the State Council published plans to build a "social credit system," a system where all acts by individuals would be aggregated into a "credit score," which is not only concerned with, for example, someone's financial status, but also ones behavior online.
These new rules contribute to the credit system by ensuring that social media accounts and similar services can be coupled to broader databases on individuals' activities.
Recently adopted net neutrality regulations soon could make your monthly Internet bill more complicated — and potentially more expensive. Every month, consumers pay a small fee on their phone bills for a federal program that uses the money — a total of $8.8 billion raised nationwide last year — to provide affordable access to telecommunications services in rural areas, underserved inner cities and schools. Now the fee could start appearing on broadband bills too, in a major expansion of the nearly two-decade-old Universal Service Fund program.
originally posted by: Hoosierdaddy71
a reply to: thishereguy
I have a feeling "fairness" is going to get expensive..
originally posted by: infolurker
a reply to: Hoosierdaddy71
Not long.
In time, expect the usual Universal Service Fees, Sales Taxes, Usage Tax, Licensing for Bloggers, Licensing for "official" news agencies / press, a new push for a "fairness doctrine" . This is just the beginning.
Expect to see more "Chinese Style" tactics with flowery reasons why we need it to get the Progressive buy in.
www.chinafile.com...
www.dw.de...
originally posted by: Hoosierdaddy71
a reply to: thishereguy
I have a feeling "fairness" is going to get expensive..