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China Wants Personal BrowsersJuly 14, 2010 – 5:10 pm |
 Abdul Fattah Ismail |
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With the Google standoff drawing to a halt for now, the Beijing regulators turn towards a different, but possibly more divergent task. According to a newswire from the Associated Press, China now seeks to reduce anonymity in their cyberspace domain. One of the steps is to require citizens to give their real name when buying mobile technology or entering a browser.
Clearly, this will affect the celestial exchange of information that Google envisions to procreate between academic professionals and students discussing their scholastic journals combined with the expanding portfolio of media services. Much of the publicity generated from this standoff can only serve to bring a stronger spotlight to security breaches. Our federal government has taken steps to provide stronger protocols in the name of ecommerce transactions, but has largely laid off regulating public forums. The roots of this different viewpoint of cyberspace regulation lie in geographical and cultural differences that have been probed with more depth on other information sources.
I will say that despite China’s antipathy towards viral expression, conversations are still being shared about censorship and geopolitics. They can’t stop the legion of offshore development that transcends national boundaries, real or imagined. As a growing economic power, China will be depended on as a conduit of digital development due to the growing educated populance. Many engineers and software developers need to access information anonymously in order to conduct sensitive research. They will be better off if they accept this position of responsibility rather than pretend that the secret society is still in play online. Chairman Mao is not walking through the door.
