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Beijing orders new controls on 'Weibo' microblogs
BBC NEWS
Use of Weibo has been growing rapidly in China. Authorities in Beijing have issued new rules requiring users
of microblog sites to register personal details. New users of Weibo - Chinese equivalents of Twitter - will now have to submit their real names. Existing users have to register in three months.
Those who refuse to do so will lose the ability to publish microblog entries.
The move comes with Chinese people increasingly using Weibo platforms to criticise government policies or vent anger over particular incidents.
Some Weibo entries are censored - such as ones that relate to the ongoing unrest in southern China's Wukan Village.
But Chinese authorities have accused netizens of spreading rumours on Weibo in the past and have long been discussing putting in place a "real name
mechanism".
Liu Ruisheng, a media researcher at the official Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, argues that that improper Weibo usage is a widespread phenomena.
"Real name accreditation for Weibo sites is yet to be made universal; anonymous and irresponsible 'micro communication' is indeed fanning the spread of
rumours," Mr Liu told the China Youth Daily.
The new regulations - which take effect immediately - were issued jointly by Beijing's information, communication and police authorities, and published on
the city's official news portal.
Websites that are registered in the capital will have to follow the 16-point regulations and make their Weibo users register their personal data.
Two of the main Weibo services - Sina and Sohu - will have to follow the new order immediately as they are both registered in Beijing.
Sina Weibo on its own has more than 200m registered users both in China and overseas.
Tencent - another major operator - is registered in the southern city of Shenzhen, where "real name" regulations do not currently exist.
Before Friday's announcement, microblog sites such as Sina Weibo already requested that users supply personal details such as identity card or passport numbers for
password-retrieving purposes. But those who preferred not to did not have to give this information.
Some users on Sina Weibo have expressed unhappiness at the new rule, posting messages such as "goodbye Weibo" and "time to move on" and calling on friends and
followers to migrate to other social media sites such as Twitter and Google+ instead.
"Netizens cannot win - when the authorities are in a good mood, they treat you as a joke; when they're in a bad mood, they censor you," one user from Xian city
wrote. "Netizens' right to free speech is not even a consideration for them."
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Would you accept to follow the same rules in France ?
Petite info supplémentaire pour votre culture générale au cas où WEIBO et le microbloging vous étaient inconnus :
articles tirés de WIKIPEDIA
Sina Weibo(en chinois 新浪微博, Xīnlàng Wēibó, littéralement Sina microblogging), couramment appelé Weibo, c'est un site de microblogging. En chinois Weibo, est l'abréviation de MicroBlog et base sur les relations des utilisateurs. Sur ces
systèmes on peut partager, diffuser et obtenir des informations. Les utilisateurs peuvent constituer leurs propres pages WEB, WAP etc. "Sina Weibo" est le premier et le plus connu parmi des
weibos. En fonction des données au janvier 2010, il y avait 75 millions d'utilisateurs inscrits. "Sina weibo" est un système hybride entre Twitteret Facebook, c'est l'un des sites les plus populaires de Chine avec 90 %
de parts de marché. Il a été initié par SINA Corporation en août 2009, et il aurait aujourd'hui plus de 200 millions
d'utilisateurs
Le microblog(parfois appelé miniblogue) est un dérivé concis du blog, qui permet de publier un court article, plus court que dans les blogs classiques, les articles pouvant être de type texte
court, mais peuvent également contenir une image ou même une vidéo embarquée, Les flux d'agrégation sont plus légers que dans les blogs traditionnels et peuvent contenir tout le message. La
diffusion peut également être restreinte par l'éditeur à un cercle de personnes désirées.
CORRECTION PROPOSEE
1) – Résumé en 170 mots
Weibo s'est développé de façon considérable en Chine c'est la raison pour laquelle les autorités de Pékin ont exigé que chaque utilisateur
fournisse son vrai nom pour l'utiliser. Les réfractaires ne pourraient plus s'en servir. La raison en est la propension de certains internautes à critiquer le régime.
Le contrôle est poussé à l'extrême puisque les sites internet qui sont lus dans la capitale vont devoir passer 16 points de réglementation et
exiger des utilisateurs de Weibo qu'ils divulguent leurs informations personnelles.
D'ailleurs SINA et SOHU les deux services les plus utilisés de Weibo ont l'ordre de se plier aux règles puisqu'ils sont enregistrés à Pékin. SINA
s'est plié à cette contrainte mais n'a en rien obligé ses utilisateurs à obtempérer.
Une partie des internautes a préféré migré vers d'autres sites comme Twitter ou Google+ plutôt que de respecter la demande de Pékin de dévoiler
ses informations personnelles. (172)
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– Would you accept to follow those rules in France ?
I wouldn't accept to follow those rules
because I live in a democracy but I understand that in cetain countries it is difficult to remain free. Giving a lot of information on us is dangerous because each word, video or photo which is
sent on the Web can be used against us. But in China people's worry is deeper because they can't really send the documents they wish. An example is given in the text, « some Weibo entries
were censored beause they related to the ongoing unrest in Southern China ». It means that the government prevent people from telling about news because they are showing a bad image of the
officials' decisions. In France because of the importance of the media it would be difficult to hide such an information but in China we can imagine that each event is checked by the authorities
before being shown on TV or on the Web. Those rules are difficult to understand in a democracy, consequently our reaction is to refuse such a position from the officials. This article is a
demonstration of the unability to live in an autocracy and to have the Internet. The Internet is a means to discover the world, people and their way of life, an autocracy or a dictatorship are
made to prevent people from being free.
