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I 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 n
by renegade-otter 2y ago
I 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.