Fuck you, MIC

The Ministry of Information and Communications has apparently blocked access to Blogspot blogs from Korea because some of them are apparently running the beheading video.

6 Comments

  1. komtengi your flag
    Posted June 25, 2004 at 5:04 pm | Permalink

    Do you have a link for this??

  2. komtengi your flag
    Posted June 25, 2004 at 5:05 pm | Permalink

    Do you have a link for this??

  3. Posted June 25, 2004 at 5:12 pm | Permalink

    Although you can’t access blogspot from within Korea, fortunately those outside of the country can access the sites so I encourage people with blog spot accounts to keep updating them even if Korea viewers can’t access them right now…

  4. Posted June 25, 2004 at 5:18 pm | Permalink

    Is this even constitutional? Is there a petition or candle light vigil we can get in on?

  5. Posted June 26, 2004 at 2:32 am | Permalink

    Well done South Korea. You’re finally demonstrating your true maturity. Tsk tsk tsk.

  6. omninihilum your flag
    Posted June 26, 2004 at 3:46 am | Permalink

    there exists such a thing called ‘proxy servers.’ south koreans are using it. The chinese have been using it.

    i have always been able to obtain the information i wanted–how hard i tried just depended on how much i wanted it.

    and as for political commentary, i personally don’t do it anymore myself. i continually learn and discover that which contradicts a prior belief. just ask yourself, do you ‘choose’ a belief and find all the facts to support it or instead, do you open your mind and realize that your reality is chosen, your beliefs are malleable? that the old aphorism is especially true in these modern times of information overload: nothing is as it seems.

    PING:
    TITLE: typepad and blogger blocked in korea
    BLOG NAME: Living in Korea
    Well it appears that typepad and blogger are officially being blocked in Korea See a href=http://jeffinkorea.blogs.com/r.....e.htmlJeff in Korea/a and a href=http://marmot.blogs.com...

    PING:
    TITLE: Asia by Blog
    BLOG NAME: Simon World
    Asia by Blog is now going to be a Monday and Thursday thing to provide a broader spread of stories from around Asian blogging. This week’s main focus is South Korea’s renewed love of censorship. China is well known for it’s censorship of blogging, as R…

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