The Cyberspace Administration of China issued new regulations on June 27 requiring all online platform operators to authenticate users’ identities and verify the account information submitted by users during registration. The new regulations require the network information service provider to display user IP addresses on their page of account information, which would facilitate Beijing ’s monitoring of user locations. The new rules will take effect on Aug. 1, when companies will need to validate every user’s online identity. ‘Illegal’ Posts Critical of Regime Current affairs commentator Lu Bei told The Epoch Times that the new rules allow the regime to…