YouTube Disables Comments and User Uploads For Korean Users

Craig Mundie may want a driver's license for the Internet, but Korea has actually implemented something of that kind. And, as first-time accepted submitter Pseudonym Authority writes, in the form of an excerpt from PC World: "Google has disabled user uploads and comments on the Korean version of its YouTube video portal in reaction to a new law that requires the real name of a contributor be listed along each contribution they make. The rules, part of a Cyber Defamation Law, came into effect on April 1 for all sites with over 100,000 unique visitors per day. It requires that users provide their real name and national ID card number."

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Re:Korea? Wich Korea?

[bill_mcgonigle]

Or maybe the United States of America, where states rights are a major issue and people from Texas (for example) will claim that they're Texan rather than American.

Before the Civil War, the common parlance was "The United States are" - now it's "The United States is". The original design was to factor out redundant effort among the States as a convenience, not to be a centrally-controlled nation with several provinces. They even called the federal government 'the general government' to describe its genericness.