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Korea-too much Internet?

zogger
Sun Aug 03 18:40:00 -0700 2008
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As the most wired up nation in the world, South Korea has a free wheeling and fast internet culture, where real news or real rumor can spread fast and hard. The government there wants to institute new rules to stop the spread of what they call rumors, and may want to make anonymous posting illegal, and force people to use their real names online, to help in part to stop trolling and flaming attacks on people.

The Korean Communications Commission, which regulates the industry, has come up with its own rules to oblige portals to suspend sites stepping outside the limits and force Websites to use real names of anyone posting comments.

ed.z.: Ha! Wishful thinking unless they want to try and outdo china on some great fire wall thing. People will just tor around and come in with different "real names" or they will just use outside of Korea hosting providers or fast changing redirects. I expect a lot of resistance to such measures. I know governments around the world really wished now that they could stuff the internet as we know it and enjoy it today genii back in the bottle, but it sort of got out and is at least partially out of their control now, which is a darn good thing, too. When only the "official and approved" sources can be heard, you gets your problems...which are much worse than any alleged internet "problems" we have now. I'll put up with the next 1,000 AC trolls before I think a "government approved" bland and controlled net is worthwhile. The internet is actually the closest thing to a "free speech" venue that humans in mass have ever had. In the past, hard to get heard outside the range of your own voice, and after that point, the local kingpin could control it either directly or by one step proxy via his drinking buddies who owned the media and publishing outlets.

Korea-too much Internet?
D. Hensley
Mon Aug 04 03:50:29 -0700 2008
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Without any apology to FDR, because while I paraphrase him, it is still exactly what he meant, just re-directed to a newer sort of forum:

If you can't stand the flames, get out of the Internet.

I'd say that about covers it.

Korea-too much Internet?
Procrastinator
Mon Aug 04 17:29:24 -0700 2008
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Can't wait for the day when someone bans the practise of believing what you read without thinking about it first.

 

It's roughly as practical as this, but harder to be seen to be "doing" something - and maybe, just maybe, a thinking populous might backfire on some of our national leaders around the world.

 

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