Chinese Gamers v ‘Real-Name Reg’
p2pnet.net News:- The so-called “personal ID generation tool” (??????) software, available online for more than a year now, has become one of the hottest downloads on the Chinese Internet in recent months, according to Chinese media reports.
The tool enables Web users to generate personal IDs that allow them to bypass real-name registration fields.
It’s currently being used by online game players who either don’t wish to offer up their personal information or are under the legal age required for certain games.
But experts have said, according to Guangzhou’s Yangcheng Evening News, that the software could pose a major challenge to a broader real-name registration system for the Chinese Internet, the kind of system the ISC is in the process of creating.
Tricia Wang – YouMeiTI
[Wang is a researcher who studies how adopted and improvised technologies affect social capital in fostering identity development, economic agency and collective participation among both online and physical world communities. She blogs about Chinese youth culture, media, and technology. She says in a previous chapter, she developed and ran youth-based participatory technology programs for the likes of the United Nations, NASA, Student Planet (Beijing), and the New York City public school system. Tricia is currently pursuing her PhD in Sociology at University of California, San Diego.]
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