The cyber fascists at the Ministry of Information and Communications have shut down Typepad blogs, too. I’m on the verge of walking across the street and throwing eggs at MIC headquarters. No notification, no reasons given… not even a list of sites they’ve decided to ban. I have no clue how long this is going to last, so don’t ask.
And again, I reiterate, fuck you, MIC.
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Browsing and posting via anonymous forwarder.
I am mad!
This is on par with Vi?ªtnam, Iran and China. Dimwits!
You think that’s bad (and you’re right), check this out..
“The National Police Agency (NPA) plans to create an anti-cyber terror unit within this year, following recent online government agency network hackings and the spread of images of the beheading of Korean translator Kim Sun-il in Iraq”
Korea Times reports that an anti-terror unit is necessary to prevent people from exercising their freedom of choice (watch it if you’re sick enough to). While I’ve got no need for the video, I’m concerned about what might be banned next…I need my girly pics!
I can’t believe I have been in Seoul for a week enjoying surfing outside China’s great firewall, actually able to view my website and it’s already time to go back to the proxies.
I will be in America at the end of August and just hope this trend does not continue.
Excuse me can you remove the proxy site address from my post. If you are interested in the address please send me an e-mail and I will send it to you. I just hope that no net nannies have already seen it and blocked it. I should know better than to post while angry.
This must be the beginning of the Creation of Eastasia who would be currently at war with Eurasia and in alliance with Oceania. And that is the way it has always been!
hmm my name didn’t show up
~fatmarley
So, Marmot, how much is your your hanbok worth now?
Wow…and you guys don’t even have a Patriot Act!
Wait a second…
Amazing. Korea has always kept a tight told on news wires, but now blogs? Wow. I thought China was the only country major country to block access to blogs. I actually thought, but not confirmed, the MIC also blocked out the Republican National Committee website (www.rnc.org) because my four years in Korea I could never access it.
They blocked the RNC site?! That’s not kind-of-paranoid, that’s insane. Maybe South Korea is closer to reunification than they let on.
Censorship? Check.
Anti-Americanism? Check (albeit half-assed).
What’s left before starvation?
MIC is *not* blocking the RNC nor GeorgeWBush.com.
Those sites are blocking all of Asia. I confirmed this with the GWB campaign HQ in March.
It’s not that unusual - I can’t access my 401(k) account and my car loan from home. And with the dumb@ss stunts (pardon, the “lively espousals of opinion”) originating from this side of the Pacific, why not?
The calls today for cyber vigilance are not new but just a step further down the path.
I remember articles over the last couple of years about government agencies scouring the internet to find pages that misrepresent Korea to the world. Once found, the searchers were supposed to do their best to encourage the webmasters to change the pages.
And over these years, some stories have come out like, “CNN website refers to “Sea of Japan”!!”
And we have seen the same kind of thing in the Korean net crowd too. Shutting down the official Olympic website. Spoiling unofficial internet polls on CNN that deal with North or South Korea.
The internet seems to be an area where Korean can feel more powerful/not so impotent.