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Korea: Online Insult Justifies Internet Crackdown
International Herald Tribune | Submitted by: Kim.Jumg.ill (or dead)
"At the National Assembly, which is now in session, [cyber-bullied actress] Choi's suicide set the rival parties on a collision course over how to regulate the Web. The governing party is promoting a law to punish online insult, but the opposition parties accused the government of trying to 'rule cyberspace with martial law.'... Public outrage over Choi's suicide gave ammunition to the government of President Lee Myung Bak, which had long sought to regulate cyberspace, a major avenue for anti-government protests in South Korea."
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From: sp00k
Date: 13-Oct-2008 22:35
The governing party is promoting a law to punish online insult... ==== All of us on this site would be so screwed
From: wulfgarthewhite [Black to White]
Date: 13-Oct-2008 23:29
/ "the government of President [insert name of top asshole] had long sought to regulate cyberspace . . ." Only the names change.
From: evildave
[Evil Dave]
Date: 13-Oct-2008 23:48
Fuck. Let's just pull out and let them become part of North Korea if they're going to pull this kind of shit. Some emotard has a hissyfit and offs himself, instead of 'good riddance', it's "We must CRACK DOWN on Interwebz!' Like there is any shortage of Asians ready to kill themselves for WHATEVER reason, even a fad. I'm sure Shrub would LOVE to 'crack down' on the 'net himself. Too bad he, like McCain couldn't find the 'Any' Key to press to continue
From: theallseeingear [Bavid Dyrden]
Date: 14-Oct-2008 00:12
Do these people believe everything they read? Is this the consequence of a tightly regulated society?
From: groundnpound [Ghillie Sinclair]
Date: 14-Oct-2008 01:22
Amazing that gooks seem to have a tendency toward censorship regardless of nationality; must be genetic. 
From: gargoyle1
Date: 14-Oct-2008 08:00
Guess they won't be reading Rotten anytime soon in Korea now will they? Seems to me she had a boatload of problems and was ready to off herself even without the innertube insult. Fucking headcases ruin it for all of us.
From: sp00k
Date: 14-Oct-2008 08:12
Two young female celebrities, one a singer and the other an actress, killed themselves last year after insulting comments about their alleged plastic surgery flooded the Web. ==== Killed themselves over plastic surgery comments. If thats all it takes we'd kill half of koreas celebrities in a few posts
From: fr4th0
[Fr4th0]
Date: 14-Oct-2008 08:18
Shit, don't let W, the NSA or the DHS see this fucking story; they'd be all over us and EVERY forum ever made. Listen, if you're so fucking sensitive to what OTHERS think of you, maybe you should think of a DIFFERENT CAREER CHOICE, YOU DUMB BITCHES. Mrs. h0 wipes asses and makes us a lot of money - I DON'T like wiping asses, so I have to find/have/hold another type of job. Fuck, that's like taking a job at the goddam sewage plant then complaining to your boss about the smell.
From: sp00k
Date: 14-Oct-2008 08:56
Here, most Web portals and online news sites have discussion boards where users can post uncensored, anonymous comments. Some news articles attract hundreds of feedback entries, ranging from thoughtful comments to raving obscenities. ===== I prefer raving obscenities
From: gargoyle1
Date: 14-Oct-2008 09:04
sp00k Date: 14-Oct-2008 08:12 Two young female celebrities, one a singer and the other an actress, killed themselves last year after insulting comments about their alleged plastic surgery flooded the Web. ==== Killed themselves over plastic surgery comments. If thats all it takes we'd kill half of koreas celebrities in a few posts ==================== Is that a problem? Asians have a weird culture. Years ago I took the family to Yellowstone for a week. We were out on the boardwalks somewhere in one of the geyser fields. My kids were teasing each other as kids will do, calling names and punching each other. Now, there were several busloads of Japanese tourists there as well. There was a couple with 2 kids near us on the board walk. One of the kids looked at the other and said "I don't like you anymore". That kid was just devastated. You may as well have told him he had terminal cancer or something. He fell to the boardwalk bawling his eyes out and curled up in a sobbing ball. His mother rushed over and started cooing at him, telling him that his brother didn't really mean it, all kinds of shit. Took them a long time to get him up and moving, etc. All over that little line. My kids were stunned and said he'd be dead within hours at their school. I couldn't help laughing my ass off at that one. My kids thought the kid was a pussy. They then proceeded to punch each other and say "I dont like you anymore" and laugh their asses off. guess it's a culture thing.
From: cattleprodsodomy [cattleprodsodomy]
Date: 14-Oct-2008 12:50
She made a fine looking corpse for 39. A little off topic, but in regards to the japanese tourists in yellowstone. I used to work at a store at the south gate, I used to tell the japanese tourists that since it was spring and the bears had just awakened, that they were more docile. I would then proceed to give them directions to where bison herds had stayed during the winter where the bears were eating carcasses of the ones who didn't make it through the winter so they could get really good close-up shots. During the winter I would convince American tourissts that due to global warming alligators had began migrating north and they should be wary of albino snow gators in the park near the springs. An albinon gator being born in a zoo being a popular news story at the time. I still can't figure out how that many ppl were that stupid. Nearly 75% believed the snow gators exsisted.
From: hippityhopp
[bunny meat is good!]
Date: 14-Oct-2008 16:36
From: cattleprodsodomy [cattleprodsodomy] Date: 14-Oct-2008 12:50 I still can't figure out how that many ppl were that stupid. Nearly 75% believed the snow gators exsisted. ****  I believe! 
From: beavis4000
[Who?]
Date: 14-Oct-2008 21:54
At first I thought Kim Jumg Il was doing this. Nope, just South Korea. By the way, the US is about to vote on some serious child protection legislation - again. No doubt it'll do a bunch of other things that are vaguely related.
Updated: 15-Oct-2008 18:41
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