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Korea Fighting Pseudonyms on the 'Net
ThreeDayMonk writes "According to the Chosun Ilbo, Korean net firms, pushed by the government, are moving to require message board users to use their real names: 'The current regulation that requires those who post messages on government and public organizations' web sites to use their real names is likely to be expanded soon to private portal sites.' The Japanese version of the page has more information. Apparently, citizen ID numbers will be used to verify identity."
Bush would love to implement the same thing of-course, as PATRIOT act III
You can moderate me as flamebait, see if I care with my 'excellent' carma
You can't handle the truth.
...when governments get too much power. No offense to any Koreans that are loyal, but you really ought to consider a coup. Personal liberty and the right to vehemently question one's leadership shouldn't be questioned, regardless of what type of place you live in. If where you live thinks the idea of free speech is "wrong" then you live int he wrong place or the leaders are fucktards. Take your pick.
People should either call themselves what they are or what they WISH they COULD be. It is crazy to try and keep track of user I.D. in those places where all people look so much alike.
I suggest you read Slashdot
there's a quite a tradition of protest in korea.
No, there isn't. There's quite a tradition of doing what the hell you're told in Korea. Regarding protests, see my post above.they're certainly more politically active and aware than americans Aware, probably. Active, not a chance.
Samsung took back my unlocked bootloader because Google wants me to rent movies. They're both evil.
Really. You were there during the times of Chun Doo Hwan. Right. Sorry, teaching ESL to Korean students because you're a blond, blue-eyed white boy with no qualifications, *after* Korea became a democracy just doesn't mean shit. Don't think you know anything about Korea. You may have gotten some Korean pussy because you're white from your ESL students, but that doesn't mean you know shit.
My parents were living in Korea during the 60s and 70s, when the protests were huge. My dad was a member of one of the student protest groups at Yonsei University. The South Korean riot police were amongst the best trained in the world... they had to because the student protests were so organized and so effective.
What little protests you saw during the 1990s is nothing. The protests in the 90s are just bored college students that don't want or need to study after Chun Doo Hwan took away all the college entrance exams so that his kid could get into Seoul University. What I'm talking about were the student protests during the 70s and 80s when they were fighting for a cause against a real dictatorship. Student leaders were tortured and killed en masse, and protesters were massacred a la Kwang Ju. But the real, passionate protests didn't stop until after Roh Tae Woo.
Go home, white boy, go home.
Yeah, that's life. Freedom of speech is only about protection from government interference. Just because it's your right to speak out about something doesn't negate another's right to disagree with you, dislike you, or take action against you.
If I am afraid of this, then that might discourage me from speaking out, restricting my freedom of speach.
Your freedom is only relevant in relation to the government since they're the concentration of political power.