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China has a Real Name System which seems to be extended to cover more facets of evey day life. Now to buy a long distance train ticket you must show your passport. To use a net cafe you also must show real name. Does this bothers you ?. Do you think it does affect your right to privacy ?.
I can see some good results out of it, but I fear it also could be used to further control the general populace, do you agree ?.
Please, share your thoughts on this. Thanks.
12 years 27 weeks ago in Visa & Legalities - China
It is only evil if you think humans are innately free and are capable of making decisions, and that it is wrong to try and alter anything that serves to strengthen their free will and ability to decide. But yes I think it is quite f***** up but it does not surprise me.
As a foreigner, I don't mind, but one time I forgot to bring my passport to buy a train ticket, and it was a bit of a hassle. I have done nothing wrong, and have nothing to hide. If they want to know I'm going to a city 2 hours away for a day or two, so what.
HappyExPat:
The excuse for including train and bus tickets was to prevent scalping of them during periods of high traveling, like holidays. It remains to be seen if that does help prevent scalping or not. Time will tell.
Jnusb416:
I'm sure they could find a way around it. If there's a will, there's a way.
Well, all I can say is it comes as a slight inconvience for legals but a really pain for those who aren't.
I don't think there is really anything wrong with what they're doing, to keep up with the 1 billion population and the 10% who are corrupt, not exact numbers I know but you get my drift, how else to ensure fair play.
They have also started doing this in English Testing Agencies to ensure future study abroad students are actually the ones taking the test instead of the agencies personel
"Do you think it does affect your right to privacy ?."
What right??? Where are you writing from?
I brought up a discussion on privacy vs security... and unfortunately, there was mostly a strong voice advocating security... so, phone taps, snail- and e-mail intercepts, midnight raids and undocumented imprisonment, etc, were all seen as acceptable to ensure public safety.