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Interesting that this site posts user agent strings and rough geo-ip locations beside all the comments. I wonder how that would change the dynamic of discussio
by kube-system 2y ago
Interesting that this site posts user agent strings and rough geo-ip locations beside all the comments. I wonder how that would change the dynamic of discussion if it were done on other sites?
- renegade-otter 2y agoI believe this is the law in China - if you post on the Internet (especially socially media), your posts MUST be geo-tagged. With social media, past a certain number of followers, you must use your real name. Honestly, that last one is not such a bad rule to be "self-enforced" by social media companies.
- szundi 2y agoHow distopian the feeling
- toxicunderGroov 2y agoWe could follow up with a talk about etiquette, manners or something instead of going straight for re-education camps
- resource_waste 2y agoAstroturfers made me think, maybe its not so bad. State actors and corporations pretend to be free thinking individuals.
- em-bee 2y agoi don't think so. i haven't seen this anywhere else. the user agent is more likely shown to see which OS the commenters use to give an idea how widespread linux is among the commenters, or maybe to see if someone is a true linux user. and the location to see where everyone is. that may help find local contacts.
- renegade-otter 2y agohttps://techtechchina.com/chinas-geo-tagging-policy-for-social-media-prompts-debate-over-online-identity-and-privacy/ https://techtechchina.com/chinas-geo-tagging-policy-for-soci...
- em-bee 2y agothank you. this seems very recent, which would explain why i haven't seen it yet. but it targets big sites, not something small like linux.cn. also, linux.cn has not been under active maintenance for a while, so i doubt that its maintainer would have rushed to implement it for that reason. my friends tell me that the maintainer was a member of the beijing gnu/linux user group, which, at least in recent years, was more privacy conscious, and although that doesn't mean that the linux.cn maintainer was as well, if you pay attention to his concerns in the post, he does seem to share some of those values.
- halJordan 2y agoAs the other comment said, it's the law. And perhaps surprisingly or unsurprisingly it has not ended or significantly impacted the vitriol and antagonism passing for dialogue in the Chinese internet.
- aaron695 2y ago[dead]