Well, you can’t use Internet without a national ID, not just can’t blog.
I don’t know since when because I’ve been using a dial up for almost 3 weeks now so it must have happened one day in the last 3 weeks.
I had to give my name, full name to the supervisor of this Internet cafe, I asked him why are you getting names of your custemers so he pointed out to a printed announcement on the wall behind him, it reads: “To abide by the instructions of the ministry of interior and the mayor, we will ask Internet users to show their national IDs.”
Interesting.
What if one doesn’t have a national ID, then what?
Are customers just flashing their IDs or do they actually have to print their name on a ’sign-in’ sheet?
You know something? it was a common practice here in the US few years ago.
As if, people can’t “fake” their IPs .. using the >1million open proxies on the Internet!
wa 3agabi
Iman, they didn’t ask for my ID but they asked for my full name to write it down on a users’ sheet.
Qwaider, it’s very interesting. I don’t think it limits my freedom as an Internet user but maybe just not yet.
BTW, it turned out that they have this law in Jordan since more than 2 years! I wonder why I haven’t seen it in my past visits to Internet cafes in both Amman and Irbid.
it’s either for short-term monitoring as the anniversary of 11/9 approaches, since there was one person arrested for threatening to blow something up a few weeks after it happened, in a posting from an internet cafe…
or it’s for information gathering pertaining to such things as the census: i.e. how many people actually use the internet in the country, demographics, access, etc.
OMG that is not a good news ! that is stupid !!!!
CheeerZ!
Nas, Or it’s pure Gestapo maneuvers used to intermediate the common Jordanian and sending a message, “we’ve got our eyes on you”
Q, doubtful considering there’s no internet regulation for over a decade now.