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Don't text 'beer' in Korea: Words that trigger teen alerts
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Re: Don't text 'beer' in Korea: Words that trigger teen alerts
#12>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).
Almost every Korean site tries to force feed some malware rootkit from ahnlab or nprotect, this is even more disturbing when you note that ahnlab's founder is apparently part of the Korean government now
Though Korea did result in one of the funniest things I've ever seen: apparently a lot of Korean companies have a strong need to "hide their proprietary website's source code" by iframing their pages multiple layers deep and making every link javascript:GoToAboutUs() so the url doesn't show up, and then window.locationing it
Re: Don't text 'beer' in Korea: Words that trigger teen alerts
#13Among 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.
Something that is a Slippery Slope to one person is Progress to another.
Re: Don't text 'beer' in Korea: Words that trigger teen alerts
#14Among 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.
SK already has national "great firewall" that does heavy censorship, not only porn is blocked.
Re: Don't text 'beer' in Korea: Words that trigger teen alerts
#15Like 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.
Its like a social experiment. How long until the teens will be speaking/texting a language that adults don't understand.
Re: Don't text 'beer' in Korea: Words that trigger teen alerts
#16Like 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.
Its like a social experiment. How long until the teens will be speaking/texting a language that adults don't understand.
Or; find out who is more agile - teens or government.
Re: Don't text 'beer' in Korea: Words that trigger teen alerts
#17>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…
Is it North or South Korea?
Re: Don't text 'beer' in Korea: Words that trigger teen alerts
#18>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…
Is it North or South Korea?
It's "our" Korea. That makes all the difference.
Re: Don't text 'beer' in Korea: Words that trigger teen alerts
#19>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…
Is it North or South Korea?
It's important to remember that up until 60 years ago they weren't in any way separate from one another, and up until 20-30 years ago when the south's economy took off, there was little material difference between how the two countries were run.
Re: Don't text 'beer' in Korea: Words that trigger teen alerts
#20Among 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.
SK already has national "great firewall" that does heavy censorship, not only porn is blocked.
Reddit and, for some reason, techcrunch, for example. Scared the shit out of me the first time I got this: https://readtiger.com/img/wkp/en/KCSC-Warning.png
