Can't quite follow on that news report.
if you want to buy a handphone in China- respectivly a sim card - you need to forward your ID card anyway. - so that is nothing new - same would be in Germany, unless you buy a prepaid card - which in China no local person would do - unless he got something to hide.
There are thousands of criminal individuals or companies - sending millions of fake messages across the country in order to steal peoples money - as such I think it is a great idea to impose - these laws onto everyone.
It is also not a moderator - as mentioned in the article - that has to show his real name but the owner or initiators of blogger sites.
A German friend of mine got conned for a 140,000 US$ - it was extremly difficult to investigate the case since the server was stationed outside of China routing through a server in Beijing, and prepaid cards were used in this internet fraud.
And these kind of frauds are a real menace in China - not everything is always about just human rights.
Regards
Kruska