South Korea Censors Its Own Censor

decora writes "The EFF reports on an internet censorship case in South Korea. The blog of Professor K.S. Park was recently brought up for consideration by the Korean Communication Standards Commission, which presides over South Korea's online censorship scheme, blocking about 10,000 URLs per month. The unusual thing about this case is that Park himself is a member of the commission; he was appointed to it by the opposition party as a well known free-speech advocate. The other members of the committee allowed him to make changes to his blog for now, but have vowed to 'take action' against it in the future."

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all societies will always censor

[circletimessquare]

the argument is never "censor" vs "don't censor" as this is a false argument that will never exist

the proper argument is "what is censored" and "how much"

in this way, idiots who go "well, the USA lets the the MPAA censor youtube posters, and germany doesn't like nazi stuff, and so this is all the same as china and iran censoring political speech"

no, it's not the same thing

and if you think about the problem of censorship in these mindless false equivalencies, you are using a sledgehammer to kill mosquitoes: you are thinking about a complex problem in a hamfisted simplistic way, and you only make yourself sound like someone who can't process complex thoughts and doesn't understand the subject matter