China: The fear implied in a real-name internet · Global Voices
Bob Chen

In China, the internet has become an important platform for citizens’ participation in policy making and criticism of officials. The freedom of the  internet is largely guaranteed by the anonymity it offers users. However efforts  to deprive the users of such freedom have never stopped. Not long ago, a young man in Shanghai was arrested because he accused his hometown government of corruption. The amazing fact is that the local police traveled hundreds of miles to Shanghai to hunt him down after identifying him as the blogger.
Now the authorities in Hangzhou seems to be taking these effort even further. The city congress has legislated that all local users, including bloggers, should register with their real names.
A post by blogger West-of-Lake-West is very popular on the internet these days. This blog entry detailed several articles in a regulation which was to be implemented on 1st May. The piece of law, passed by city congress, is named ‘Regulation on Protection of Computer Information and Internet safety’ (计算机信息网络安全保护管理条例).
In article 18, the blogger found that
…..应当记录上网用户的上网时间，用户帐号，互联网网络地址或者域名，主角电话号码等信息。
The blogger questioned:
我要问的是，如果我去杭州百货大楼去买某品牌的衣服，我需要向杭州大厦登记我的姓名，地址，身份证号码么？有这样的道理么?凭什么我去上网，我的上网信息要被他们记录。你给我个理由，你问过我们没有？
He then posted online the article 19:
提供电子公告，网络游戏和其他即时通信服务的，具有用户注册信息和发布信息审核功能的，并如实想起申请开设上述服务的用户的有效身份证明。电子公告指的是户料网上的论坛，聊天室，留言板，博客等交互形式。
An article he found to be the most ridiculous is:
鼓动公众恶意评论他人，公开发布他人隐私，或者通过暗示，影射等方式，对他人进行人身攻击的。
He made fun of the article:
再说了，我想请教法律专家，如何操控定义恶意评论他人，更如何在法律的框架下定义影射与暗示。我说，在杭州有一个姓王的胖子很坏，我是不是影射那个胖子王姓市委书记？
Finally he said he would be considered as a criminal after 1 May, because
注意，我这篇帖子违反了法律：首先没有身份登记，还有鼓动公众恶意评论，第三，我还可能影射了一个胖子，这个胖子有人说是苹果王，有人说是王苹果，还有pgw,还有王书籍。。。
我们该怎么面对这份法律，我们以后还能怎么说话？我们还有没有批评权利？谁能保证我们在批评的时候的权利？
我们向全国网友求救。、。。。