Comments on: Yahoo + Korea = more censorship

By: b군의 b급 blog

b군의 b급 blog — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 14:42:59 +0000

Internet censorship of Korea…

Yes, my country blocked some information from North Korea for long time. in South Korea, you can’t connect the web sites which made by North Korea. South Korea, for instance, tends to block only information about its neighboring rival, North Korea. (f…

By: This Week’s Wandering News « The Daily Transit

This Week’s Wandering News « The Daily Transit — Tue, 19 Jun 2007 04:40:44 +0000

[...] The Marmot’s Hole reports that Flickr, under it’s new Yahoo! ownership, is capitulating to restrictive decency laws in China, Germany and South Korea, and fostering censorship. [...]

By: littlebrownasian

littlebrownasian — Sun, 17 Jun 2007 03:12:15 +0000

WTF can’t believe anybody still uses crappy Yahoo to do their searches. Just use Google (Canada or UK, not Korea). Type google.ca or google.co.uk instead of google.com and you’re off!

By: R. Elgin

R. Elgin — Sun, 17 Jun 2007 02:13:50 +0000

Thanks “dailytransit” for the link update.

By: wjk

wjk — Sat, 16 Jun 2007 18:51:48 +0000

sucked like hell when google bought youtube. The quality and quantity in youtube has declined. What’s the big deal? You can’t own the video. It just created a bigger pocket to sue.

By: dailytransit

dailytransit — Sat, 16 Jun 2007 17:02:19 +0000

BTW - the link to the Machinist blog above didn’t work.

here it is.

By: dailytransit

dailytransit — Sat, 16 Jun 2007 16:59:01 +0000

auto spell-check has made me stupid.

the above should be “censoring,” not “sensoring.”

By: dailytransit

dailytransit — Sat, 16 Jun 2007 16:56:48 +0000

I’m a bit baffled by all of this - first, I was unaware that SK had such strict “decency” laws.

Maybe I’m misinformed, but Korea doesn’t have a ban on porn that I’m aware of - maybe it does on the more hardcore stuff. But even if there were a ban, that still doesn’t seem to follow; though I’ve never really looked, I’ve never come across anything remotely risque on flickr.

Is this more so over political imagery? I know China has recently had some issues with images on flickr, but I was unaware of such political stifling in Korea. Don’t get me wrong, I’m well aware of the National Security Law and its abuses to silence dissidents - but sensoring the Internet?

Can anyone point me to some good background links about Korea’s free-speech laws? Or perhaps explain Yahoo’s motivation to self-censor?

Damn, I knew when Yahoo bought Flickr it was bad news.

By: R. Elgin

R. Elgin — Sat, 16 Jun 2007 06:51:24 +0000

boycott yahoo, boycott flickr.

Use qnext.com or http://www.bubbleshare.com/ — both viable alternatives, without censoring.

By: bighominid

bighominid — Sat, 16 Jun 2007 04:45:03 +0000

“That’s for the people themselves to do.”

I agree. Alas, the people don’t seem particularly incensed.

Kevin