Don't text 'beer' in Korea: Words that trigger teen alerts
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Don't text 'beer' in Korea: Words that trigger teen alerts
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#2Like Korean teenagers won't immediately develop a code words to evade this. I'm not sure if there's already an equivalent to l33tsp34k in Korean, but if not, there is now.
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#3What's IS? Islamic State?
Re: Don't text 'beer' in Korea: Words that trigger teen alerts
#4Like Korean teenagers won't immediately develop a code words to evade this. I'm not sure if there's already an equivalent to l33tsp34k in Korean, but if not, there is now.
Seoulite rhyming slang?
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#6>the country's telecoms regulator ordered monitoring applications be installed on the smartphones of Koreans aged 18 and below
This is disgusting to read, in all seriousness. Not allowed to have a blog without linking it to their SSN, not allowed to play games without linking it to their SSN, all communications monitored, chat logged.. holy shit. Getting a mobile phone also requires one.. (and that's not even counting the heavy internet censorship, porn illegality and free speech restrictions)
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#8Among the many reasons this is frightening:
>"Smart Sheriff" app was funded by the South Korean government primarily to block access to pornography and other offensive content online. But its features go well beyond that.
So forcibly blocking "offensive content" is a-ok, it's only when it goes beyond that that there's a problem.
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#9>the country's telecoms regulator ordered monitoring applications be installed on the smartphones of Koreans aged 18 and below This is disgusting to read, in all seriousness. Not allowed to have a blog without linking it to their SSN, not allowed to play games without linking it to their SSN, all communications monitored, chat logged.. holy shit. Getting a mobile phone also requires one.. (and that's not even countin…
It's infuriating to live in a country with such outstanding tech infrastructure to be shackled with these insane policies. Not to mention ActiveX and eight different plugin downloads for nearly any transaction, Spring/Java being considered the cutting edge in web development, and the downright Fascist porn restrictions (no I'm not bitter).
Re: Don't text 'beer' in Korea: Words that trigger teen alerts
#10What's IS? Islamic State?
Son: "He didn't used to be the Prime Minister of the UK, he IS the Prime Minister of the UK."
Dad: "Learn some respect and dial back your certainty or I'll install an app to do it for you!"