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Sunday, June 27, 2004

Are Online Demonstrations Illegal, Too?

One more post before I go to sleep. Last spring (2003) when I had to use PC rooms a lot, I experienced problems signing on to my AOL mail account. I got the impression from the employee that he thought I was accessing some kind of pornographic site, and I understood that THAT PARTICULAR PC ROOM blocked certain sites because so many kids used that PC room. I found it annoying that there was no way around the filter, or whatever it was, even after explaining to the employee that it was only an email site. Eventually I switched from my AOL account to Yahoo for that and other reasons. However, I'm finding that the Korean government has a history of censorship, and apparently EVERY public computer (has/is supposed to have) QUITE A FEW sites blocked, beginning back in 2001!! The reasoning behind the ban is to protect young people, but the majority of my students use their home computers completely unsupervised.

From what I'm reading here, it might be illegal to demonstrate online, and they define many people sending emails to the MIC as being an online demonstration.

See here and here for more info, or just go check out everything that's on the Base21 and Freeonline sites.

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