October 3, 2019 (LifeSiteNews) — As part of its increasingly onerous social credit system, Chinese citizens will soon have to undergo a facial-recognition scan to prove their identities before being permitted to install internet access in their homes or on their smartphones.
The new rule issued
by the Chinese Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT) goes into effect on December 1 and is, ostensibly, a move to increase internet security and prevent terrorism.
Critics, however, detect the workings of an autocratic, totalitarian state and claim that the measure will further restrict the freedom of the Chinese people and potentially violate their human rights.
“The reason why the Chinese regime asks people to register their real identities to surf the internet is because it wants to control people’s speech,” U.S.-based commentator Tang Jingyuan recently told The Epoch Times.
“MIIT’s new rule on using facial recognition to identify an [...]
What is China? China, officially the People's Republic of China (PRC) is a country in East Asia. It is the world's most populous country, with a population of around 1.4 billion in 2019. Covering approximately 9.6 million square kilometres, it is the world's third or fourth-largest country by area. Governed solely
by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), the state exercises jurisdiction over 22 provinces, five autonomous regions, four direct-controlled municipalities (Beijing, Tianjin, Shanghai, and Chongqing), and the special administrative regions of Hong Kong and Macau. China is a unitary one-party socialist republic, and is one of the few existing nominally socialist states. Political dissidents and human rights groups have denounced and criticized the Chinese government for human rights abuses, including suppression of religious and ethnic minorities, censorship, mass surveillance, and their response to protests, notably in 1989.
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