South Korea Bans Anonymous Posting On Popular Websites
from the no-anonymity-for-you dept
While the US courts have been quite clear over and over again that people have a right to post anonymously online, other countries have been a lot less open to the concept. Over in South Korea, we recently covered the lawsuit against an anonymous (ok, formerly anonymous) blogger who was accused of spreading "false rumors." Apparently there was also another recent case in the country, involving photos anonymously posted online of a woman who failed to clean up after her dog. In response, Korea has now passed a law that requires anyone posting on a site that has over 100,000 unique visitors a day to reveal their real names and national ID (found via Michael Scott). This seems quite extreme. There are certainly pros and cons to allowing anonymous speech, but it seems to go overboard to outlaw it completely on any relatively popular site.
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Just wanted to let you know that rules like this kinda blow.
Tgeigs ***_**-9006 out.
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To quote myself
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I don't think it's Teryaki...
If the country was allowed to fall into poverty, by stopping purchase of their stuff, on the grounds of freedom or human rights violations, what types of dishes and desserts would we loose?
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Re: I don't think it's Teryaki...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Korean_cuisine
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Thanks for the link, Tgeigs. Your a life saver!
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>there's a few problems- 1) they took the Google
>buttons off of the computer, flagged Google
>as a nefarious site and the hostsfile is
>locked! Lastly, I am forced to use Live Search!
First off switch to Firefox. IE is generally a hazard with a barn door or three left open some where. Plus M$ is way too slow to get patches on the street. You should only use IE when nothing else will do.
I tend to make Google my homepage so I can get to it in a click.
I keep google as my home page.
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Not only should you convert to Firefox and NEVER touch IE again, but not only make Google your homepage, but sign up for a throw away Gmail account and get yourself an iGoogle age. That is where I discovered Techdirt via RSS feed. On one age I have the TD and Slashdot RSS, plus updated sports live box scores for NHL/MLB/NBA/NFL/NCAA, plus radar weather, CNN, and SI. Get it, love it, thank me later...
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Use real information??
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1. They have a very active netizen culture there.
2. They have an anti-fan phenomenon there.
3. Anti-fans (people who take an active interest in defaming or hating a particular person/celebrity) have directly/indirectly caused deaths.
To everyone else around the world, such behavior is totally absurd, but it occurs there.
Am not a foremost expert in this matter, and i'm sure there are other issues surrounding this one, but from what i do know, it's to curb such hate crimes.
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Oh, you mean like DailyKos, Huffington Post, New York Times, Media Metters, Perez (the fag) Hilton, Janet Napolitano, George Clooney, Rosie (the pig) O'Donnell......just to name a few
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to put things in perspective
this doesn't surprise me at all.
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Being Judgemental
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That's funny coming from an anonymous poster. Hypocrite.
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Anon posting
Basically, they take your details and also your equivalent social security number which is totally unique to you and is registered at birth. They also have your fingerprints tied to that number. The SSN and prints are held in your own city hall and also centrally.
It's frankly orwellian.
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Joke of the day
Seoul Food....
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Can't handle it?
Deal with these issues!
They're the best!
(psst. someone should be writing these at the same time as me!)
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