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- neokyotodragon, on 10/12/2007, -4/+50What would the internet be like without anonymity? O.o
- iNaya, on 10/12/2007, -3/+27It would prevent most people from calling everyone else an Iddyot asswhole hu cnt speel and evryting dey say is total bull****.
In other words people would be more polite if other people can find out who is saying nasty things to them.
Now flame me if you so wish. - borninda818, on 10/12/2007, -1/+25This is the type of thing I'd expect from N. Korea.
- WaterDragon, on 10/12/2007, -0/+24OK...but I'll need your full name and address first.
- Serifos, on 10/12/2007, -1/+19Even if that happened here in the US, we wouldn't know:
"Government, Joe Smith from the Internet flamed me and hurt my feelings!"
Real name or not, trolls are an Internets certainty. - raingrove, on 10/12/2007, -4/+18@ShrimpCrackers,
1. Actually the South Korean Media has too much freedom now. Almost too much. The top 3 newspaper media in Korea (Chosun, Joins and Donga) happen to support the opposition party(conservative) so the current president and the ruling party (Uri-party, liberal) are being criticized almost senselessly everyday for every God damn thing they do. Due to this, the population is made into believing that the government indeed sucks to the core (The current president's approval rating is only about 5% - worse than Bush.) making it extremely difficult to carry out an efficient administration. The media in Korea are like FOX news... just worse. Extremely biased and no political neutrality or anything.
2. The South Korean government censors the Internet, that's right, but they are not like China. They don't ban websites like wikipedia. They don't censor Google search results. The only websites they censor are the North Korean propaganda. (The reason is pretty obvious.)
3. The Residence ID is required for large web portals primarily because they do not want users making multiple accounts.
4. This new law only applies to major web portals and this law is not made to police/censor the Internet, but rather, to prevent trolling. Trolling is a serious problem in South Korea. Just as prevalent as "zerg rush kekeke". - WaterDragon, on 10/12/2007, -1/+15That sounds like a bunch of identity thefts just waiting to happen.
Please, nobody tell the Nigerians about this. - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+10Annyong!
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SHVAN KANAKA - baxtermaddux, on 10/12/2007, -16/+23i can totally see this happening in America under Bush's rule.
It would be justified by the Homeland security Dept. to protect Amerikuh from Terra and evildoers - Jugalator, on 10/12/2007, -1/+8"What would the internet be like without anonymity?"
Civil? ;-)
But also silenced, which is the much worse problem here. This will lead to a lot of problems when people would prefer to be anonymous (news stories, political opinions, etc), and something I thought would come from NORTH Korea... - Stonekeeper, on 10/12/2007, -3/+10This is a great idea. It couldn't have come sooner.
Regards,
Elvis - eurofooty, on 10/12/2007, -2/+8There's gonna be a few Kim Doe's, I gather.
- Arkonnan, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6I swear officer, my name really is Harry Feltersnatch.
- iNaya, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6When signing up to Korean Internet sites, people are required to enter their ID number (similar to SSID in the States)
- hyperden, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6there is so much wrong with putting your real name on the web like that, its asking for trouble.
- Easty, on 10/12/2007, -3/+9It's PEANUT BUTTER STALKER TIME PEANUT BUTTER STALKER TIME
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -3/+9Didn't the US want to implement this some 2 years ago?
- ajamer, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5So I want be seeing any more MrGoatseKorea on Star Craft?
- gcnaddict, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3There go our korean 4chan anons
- Farkeologist, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Death to the Anonymous Coward!
- kanned, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Hehe.. that's what I was thinking... There's like what.. four Korean surnames? Kim, Park, Son, Pak?
- toast1226, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3its annyoung =)
- Sansu, on 10/12/2007, -2/+5Would be a sad thing if this becomes standard practice...
a lot of forum comments would lose a lot of their 'character' ^.^;;;
But my question to these S.Korean legislators: wouldn't individuals be more secure using a screen name rather than their real name? - baxtermaddux, on 10/12/2007, -2/+5i was just joking....kinda
seriously though, they have overstepped so many powers its only a matter of time before the extreme conservatives take away your online freedoms in the name of terruh. just wait till internet terrorism hits the states. - richardiscool, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3A) I think you mean Kim Jong-Il
B) Wrong Korea, dumbass. - kingfelix, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2this is true. you can't do anything in south korea without faxing the company (for example cable company, or ISP, or cyworld) a copy of your national identification card. it's a nightmare. you can't even get a discount card at the local supermarket without your national ID.
doesn't stop ridiculous commentary or trolling, though. - wout, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Perhaps by using a form of digital authentication.. (Passport reader)
- albatross2147, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Ummm - is somebody trying to be funny here? A large proportion of the Korean population have the same family ie "Kim" I don't know about given names but anyway having to give a real name sounds like someone is trying to stop a lot of fun.
- yahoofrom, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2@raingrove
3. That also means that foreigners in South Korea without residential id cannot login to major web portals. Not every foreigners have residential id.
4. Forcing real names on every major websites by law only To stop trolling is an overkill.
But when a bunch of anonymous people (it's mob crazyness) picks a target person and starts to curse the person, creates bad rumers about the person.... Yes, it is sick. this sick thing happens frequently in South Korean tubes. I think this is what you meant by "trolling", while it's not exactly trolling, but rather.. mob crazyness. Sayng "kekeke" in online game is not problem. everybody bashing one person, that's the problem.
But that law enforcement is not the solution. - imgLab, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2pretty shame thing happens in my county. lots of portal site need ID numbers to join many of youngsters using random ID number generator to sign up. this make things worse. and there's more. most of big sites and government service web pages install Microsoft's active-x based security program. it's a shame.
- sotopheavy, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1By gov issued email, I mean it would be used to verify your identity when you sign up for myspace or other social (or age restricted) websites. You can have email from that address forwarded to any other address. You do not need it to sign up for everything, just for things where you want to be certain of peoples identity. No sex offenders could sign up for myspace with an unregistered email address if they were required to use the government issued one.
- ishmal, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I assume that this is stems from all of the scandals in the last few years, in a culture that holds reputation at higher value than anything else.
- Christia, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1"Everything you say can and will be used against you in a court of law... or by a potential employer... or landlord..."
- Zippo, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1There'd be a whole lot less *****, I know that.
- kazuhima, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1"PKPKPKPKPK GIVE ME ITAM ^___^"
would it stop annoying nonsense like this....?
im all for it..... - kingfelix, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1that's not the point. sometimes you have to wear a mask in order to be able to tell the truth.
"In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act."
-George Orwell - ShrimpCrackers, on 10/12/2007, -3/+4Thing is, South Korea is one of those Young Democratic nations that actually censor the internet. Not only that, many South Korean websites (and MMORPGs) require you to enter your (South Korean) Residence ID which is similar in importance to a Social Security number when it comes to identification.
This is just the next step as South Korea stalls on its way towards things like very Westernized Press Freedom and Civil Liberties. - VeganG, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Government enforcement of politeness is whack.
- Sakumi, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1That's funny. To bad people will just disregard it.
- bmwboy, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1This won't really affect the Internet in general, I mean, not all web portals are hosted in Korea, so id really like to see the government enforce this one :P
- yahoofrom, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1including you.
- DECwakeboarder, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Right...
If it really does require people to enter a PIN when signing up to sites, doesn't that make the scammers more liable to be scammed? - sotopheavy, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1anonymous speech is good. but maybe we could use a gov issued email address. think about keeping sex offenders off myspace... and more
- badken, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2I'm surprised by many of the comments here that equate accountability with fascism. Freedom of Speech is a fundamental right in the US--anonymity is not. At least have the balls to stand behind your own words.
- korea, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1annyeong (haseyo/hashimikka?)
- coldfusion1970, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Ha let them try that over here.
Yours sincerely
Tony Blair - ElectroOverlord, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2I break the law every day on the net....see that Bit Torrent client running...
Like I would obey this law if it was implemented... - KingWiqid, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1if you cannot put your name behind your comments than perhaps your comment aren't worthy of posting. Fun to talk ***** with a mask on huh? equating this with taking away freedoms is inaccurate - you will still be free to say whatever you want - you just have to be accountable for what you say ? whats the problem?
- mikebritton, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1This shouldn't be legislated by any government, but I happen to agree with the idea that anonymity has no useful purpose and is entirely id-driven.
"Internet anonymity" is illusory; I typically use my real name. What fun is being rude without accountability?
Eventually most long-used cryptic handles will point to a name, and the identities of people favoring anonymity over fair discourse will be public knowledge. In fact, I bet a lot of future "digital archeology" will involve this kind of outing. Can't wait. -
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