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Plans to make all online users register have been debated for years in China, but senior officials have confirmed that the government is now actively investigating how to implement a system of real-name registration.

China to Force All 400 Million Internet Users to Register Their Real Names | Impact Lab 2010

“I am afraid there will be more harassment or reprisals if real-name registration system is enforced,” wrote one user of the popular QQ. com bulletin board.

China to Force All 400 Million Internet Users to Register Their Real Names | Impact Lab 2010

Global Voices in English » China: The fear implied in a real-name internet

Global Voices in English » China: The fear implied in a real-name internet 2009

A Korean law requires “real-name verification” for Internet services with more than 100,000 different daily users, Google said.

p2pnet World Headlines – April 14, 2009 2009

YouTube pulled out of South Korea after SK tried to put a real-name mandate on all content.

Archive 2009-06-01 Rebecca Tushnet 2009

This was to avoid the new regulations that mandate Internet users to make verifiable real-name registrations on all Web sites with more than 100,000 daily visitors, which means they have to submit their resident registration codes, the Korean equivalent of social security numbers.

Google censors Textcube in S. Korea 2009

“Complying with the real-name rules would have been an enormous risk for Google, as the government could later demand user information from the company, not a precedent it wants to show to other countries.”

Google censors Textcube in S. Korea 2009

According to authors John Earl Haynes and Harvey Klehr, the Venona transcripts identify approximately 349 Americans whom they claim had a covert relationship with Soviet intelligence, though fewer than half of these have been matched to real-name identities .....

The Volokh Conspiracy » Andrew McCarthy Sticks to His Guns (And He May Be Pointing Them at You Next) 2010

Lawmakers also okayed a bill calling for the, “strengthening of the real-name verification on Web sites,” says the story, going on according to the “bulked-up copyright law,” the government can nosw shut down an online message board for up to six months once the site is, “warned for a third time to delete pirated content and prevent its movement”.

New South Korea ‘3 strikes’ copyright law 2009

The adoption of real-name system shows that the current government is excessively sensitive about political opinion on the Internet.

N. Korean Propaganda Appears on Popular Internet Social Media sites 2010