Chinese government has ordered micro blogging websites to enforce real name registrations. The government has given 3 months time to accomplish this task. This move was expected as Chinese officials warned several months ago that a strict social media policy was coming. Furthermore, since China has already banned Twitter and Facebook, it has to deal only with domestic companies and that means that the government can go to any extent to make sure that the new social media policy is followed.
China based Weibo.com, which run by Beijing based Sina Corp, is a micro blogging site similar in functionality to Twitter and has more than 250 million users worldwide. Since this policy applies to all the China based micro blogging websites, the foreign users of Weibo.com will also be affected by this policy. 
Chinese government is known for its strict policy against social networking sites. It sees social media as a mode which can be used to destabilize the government. And why shouldn’t it be? We have already seen the effects of social media in the mass movements throughout the world, whether it be in Egypt or the currently ongoing Occupy Wall Street movement in the United States.
Weibo.com has not commented on this matter yet, but we are sure that it will loose a large number of users world wide because of this new order by the government.
It should be noted that people protests are illegal in China. And this is one of the main reasons behind this strict policy of the Beijing government. It has made it clear that the use of micro blogging for inciting assembly is illegal and is punishable by the law.
After the Great Firewall of China and other censorship measures, this is one of the latest advancements in the censorship by the government.
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