Götterdämmerung
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My experience with registry of my phone number with my passport was a prime example of what the Chinese gov wants and how reality just doesn't match. In Shanghai I went to the Unicom shop to get a phone number and the nice lady asked for my passport, the problem was my German name because the most Chinese only have three characters and my name has more than 10 letters. So, she just asked me to pick an available number and paid without any registry. Here in Germany, it's impossible not to get your number registered.
Visiting another province for a few days and in need of a new number since caling out of province is expensive I went to a kiosk near my hotel and bought a new phone number. The young lady there didn't even bother to ask me for my name or pasport. Just open the letter, take the SIM card and use it.
Here is a German article from Germany's most respected IT magazin about the new laws in China. People in the forum just laugh at the Chinese efforts because China is actually trying to catch up with us in supervising and spying its citizens. Only the gullibles think we are "free" to do what we want, particularly our brainwashed friends from the other side of the Atlantic Ocean.
The article
China verschärft Kontrolle des Internets | heise online
The discussion
China verschärft Kontrolle des Internets | News-Foren
If anyone has a question in regard of what some forumers are talking about, just aks me!
Visiting another province for a few days and in need of a new number since caling out of province is expensive I went to a kiosk near my hotel and bought a new phone number. The young lady there didn't even bother to ask me for my name or pasport. Just open the letter, take the SIM card and use it.
Here is a German article from Germany's most respected IT magazin about the new laws in China. People in the forum just laugh at the Chinese efforts because China is actually trying to catch up with us in supervising and spying its citizens. Only the gullibles think we are "free" to do what we want, particularly our brainwashed friends from the other side of the Atlantic Ocean.
The article
China verschärft Kontrolle des Internets | heise online
The discussion
China verschärft Kontrolle des Internets | News-Foren
If anyone has a question in regard of what some forumers are talking about, just aks me!