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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

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Post by Lawtonfogle »

pki wrote: post #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 countin…

Every day the envelope gets pushed further and further. This is one of the driving factors behind my shifting view to be behind an unlimited Freedom of Speech/Information viewpoint. No restriction on any speech/information, including monitoring that would have a chilling effect. I realize it isn't perfect, but I think it is better than the alternative. Also, someone needs to take the extreme stance because if the only two groups are the ones who are willing to compromise and the others at the opposite extreme, the latter is going to eventually win.

Re: Don't text 'beer' in Korea: Words that trigger teen alerts

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Post by task_queue »

pki wrote: post #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 countin…

At least they're open about it.

Re: Don't text 'beer' in Korea: Words that trigger teen alerts

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Post by pki »

mg1982 wrote: post #20
pki wrote: post #14

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

Why settle for an image? http://warning.or.kr

Bonus 2001 javascript throwback: they try to block right click.

Re: Don't text 'beer' in Korea: Words that trigger teen alerts

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Post by devonkim »

stephengillie wrote: post #7
bigdubs wrote: post #5

Earlier quoted context omitted.

B33r?

맥주 (maegju) can become 0|-|ㄱ 주, right? ;)

I'm not even sure what words they're censoring, that might not even be it potentially. If it's 술 then you'd get like 500 other words stuck in context with it like I dunno, 요술. Filtering for certain words is probably a lot easier in Korean than in English and concatenating that all together is probably about as easy to guess as 13375p34k in English.

Re: Don't text 'beer' in Korea: Words that trigger teen alerts

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Post by kobepanda »

stephengillie wrote: post #7
bigdubs wrote: post #5

Earlier quoted context omitted.

B33r?

맥주 (maegju) can become 0|-|ㄱ 주, right? ;)

Haha I like that. Most likely will be ㅁㅈ though unless that's already on the list. Anecdotally I've seen whole messages written using the first piece of the Hangeul square. Seems like that would be a nightmare to keep track of for these programs and relatively easy for kids to perfect.

Re: Don't text 'beer' in Korea: Words that trigger teen alerts

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Post by egypturnash »

> "Smart Relief" is a mobile app for parental control of Android smartphones. [...] Smart Relief is not one of the 15 apps [that the government requires to be installed on teen phones] but shares similar features with them.

Why isn't this article dissecting one of the apps that is mandatory for teenager's phones, then?

Re: Don't text 'beer' in Korea: Words that trigger teen alerts

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Post by egypturnash »

> "Smart Relief" is a mobile app for parental control of Android smartphones. [...] Smart Relief is not one of the 15 apps [that the government requires to be installed on teen phones] but shares similar features with them.

Why isn't this article dissecting one of the apps that is mandatory for teenager's phones, then?

Re: Don't text 'beer' in Korea: Words that trigger teen alerts

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Post by suprgeek »

This is the digital equivalent of America's beer laws - you cannot drink till you are 21; but hey you can vote, get married, join the army (and drive a tank or handle nukes presumably) but NO DRINKING! Every single American college person I have talked to (almost without exception) talks about the non-stop binges they go on when they hit 21.

Now the South Korean kids will go on Digital binges when they hit 18 - what will that be like (!).

Re: Don't text 'beer' in Korea: Words that trigger teen alerts

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Post by yellowapple »

pki wrote: post #24
mg1982 wrote: post #20

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

Why settle for an image? http://warning.or.kr Bonus 2001 javascript throwback: they try to block right click.

I love how the whole top banner is a static image.
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