[Foundation-l] South Korean Government's regulations on real name for Internet

Thu Apr 9 05:42:06 UTC 2009

Yap, it's silly. But it's happening in Korea.

http://www.koreatimes.co.kr/www/news/biz/2009/04/123_42862.html

2009/4/9 teun spaans <teun.spaans at gmail.com>:
> "oncurrently April 1 is when the amendment to South Korea’s Act on the
> Promotion of Information and Communications Network Utilization and User
> Protection will go into effect".
> That date smells ;-)
>
> On Thu, Apr 9, 2009 at 6:53 AM, RYU Cheol <rcheol at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> According to this post,
>>
>> http://briandeutsch.blogspot.com/2009/03/google-korea-youtube-korea-to-begin.html
>> ,
>>
>> "Google, the world’s largest Internet company, has finally submitted
>> to South Korea‘s unprecedented Internet regulations, including
>> agreeing to implement a “real name” system in which any South Korean
>> can post their contents only after they confirm their resident
>> registration number."
>>
>> Wikipedia have to response to this regulation.
>>
>> Any site which has more than 100,000 visitors for a day have to
>> implement real name system according to the regulation.
>> We have to check the number of visitors from South Korea. If we have
>> more than that, we have to decide if we will allow editing or not from
>> South Korea.
>>
>> It's a serious challenge for Wikipedia.
>>
>> -Cheol
>>
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