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Looks like South Korea is taking a page out of its northern neighbour's book. Will this impact software exported out of Korea? I can't imagine Samsung will gain any popularity if their phones come prepackaged with AI censorship tools. It massively backfired when Apple planned to do it on iPhones.
I've tried to use it out of curiosity and it rejects a lot of my image edits as inappropriate (violence) so the foundation is set.
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It's not intellectually lazy, it's being intellectually tired. Both parties only every get anything done in this country when it comes to voting to restrict our rights. Ideologically, I'm slightly right leaning. My primary value is individual rights are more important. But if I could, I would vote for Ron Wyden(D) despite the fact that I disagree with many of his positions, he's still one of the few that has a spine…
I can understand it's tiring. But, as someone who was born in totalitarian regime - you still have plenty opportunities to change things in the U.S. Many U.S. states have direct democracy, which is unique in vast majority of the world. You still have free media. You can influence primaries of the two parties. I don't think people are "protest" voting. You're the one protest voting - by not voting at all. You should a…
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I’m Korean too, but people forget that the right wing has also enforced censorship. Personally, I think the Korean right wing cries out for freedom, but in reality their ideology is rooted in the anti-communist thought of the anti-communist liberal era. I myself have somewhat negative feelings toward communism, but the so-called 'right-wing' regime in Korea is really just nostalgia for dictatorship. The current Korea…
Not familiar with Korean politics, but both left and right are immensely pro-censorship here in America. For the most part, the only thing that's saving us (at least so far) is that they can't agree on what to censor.
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>The problem is that using an AI censorship tool requires purchasing a solution from a specific vendor. This smells of corruption.
It's essentially a takedown of Korean imageboards and forums where political memes, especially of the current president, is very popular. They are fully aware that these operators will not be able to afford the hardware and sustain their public squares by requiring a ridiculous ordinance targeting them. I see GP is downplaying this very fact that its the "norm" in Korea and I can tell you that it's not. Korea has enj…
The catholic church fought the printing press for hundreds of years. Lets see how long our rulers fight the internet.
The printing press was very much an invention /not/ at the disposal of the citizens. It analogizes poorly to the Internet.
Something missing as cultural context is that deepfake, involuntary "porn", and all sorts of abuse of personal image, are a rampant and omnipresent problem in Korea. Many things are great here, but the sexual landscape when it comes to men versus women and kids, is nasty. You can't really apply a Western mindset to this without understanding just how messed up some of that stuff is. So whatever you think of the mecha…
I associate "harmony" with voluntary cooperation and joy, not machines preemptively gagging people. A good exercise is to imagine what this would look like transplanted into non-tech terms: it is illegal to operate a bar, restaurant, book shop, art studio, or even to gather in medium-to-large groups of people, without a government assigned censor empowered to listen in and silence people.
Does that still look "harmonious"?
Something missing as cultural context is that deepfake, involuntary "porn", and all sorts of abuse of personal image, are a rampant and omnipresent problem in Korea. Many things are great here, but the sexual landscape when it comes to men versus women and kids, is nasty. You can't really apply a Western mindset to this without understanding just how messed up some of that stuff is. So whatever you think of the mecha…
> It's going to sound cliché but it leans on harmony and the group where the Western one leans on the individual. I associate "harmony" with voluntary cooperation and joy, not machines preemptively gagging people. A good exercise is to imagine what this would look like transplanted into non-tech terms: it is illegal to operate a bar, restaurant, book shop, art studio, or even to gather in medium-to-large groups of pe…
From our Western point of view, it is very much not voluntary and joyful.
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CMS here not referring to content management system?
You're right. I need to explain that the bulletin board systems and forum systems are built primarily around a specific CMS. Sorry about that.
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That's interesting. I didn't know any other country in East Asia that showed this level of restrictive policy that sets up a cascade of problematic tooling and technologies. Japanese Internet was pretty bad in the 2010s, but this was all self-inflicted done by the private sector. The government had very little do with it. And even then, ActiveX controls were very rare. My main pain point with online banking was ugly…
The paper card 2FA seems better than SMS 2FA or an app 2FA if you're relatively sure your physical security is good. The card shouldn't cost money or could cost 50 yen which would be more than enough to cover printing it. You're not vulnerable to SMS interception or phone malware. You're also not forced into Google's or Apple's walled gardens.