links for 2007-01-06

• China Media Project: Chinese media: "personal ID generation tool" could undermine real-name registration on the Web
  a ripple of recent reports about new "ID generation" software in China suggests Web users might be finding ways around the real-name system even before it's been rolled out.
  (tags: realname identity anonymity circumvention freespeech internet china chineseinternetresearch)

Comments

[Stephi]

People always have ways to bend the rules. On internet not many people like to reveal their identity so they use fake identities. Now this is because of different reasons, not just because certain age groups dont have access to certain sites but also people dont want to reveal their identity to unknown.