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Real Reality
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 Posted: Tue Jul 08, 2008 6:50 pm Post subject: Travel Ban on 20 Internet Users in Korea |
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I posted this in the General Discussion Forum. However, it could also be appropriate here. Perhaps, Demophobe and some others would like to discuss the technological and privacy issues related to this article.
Prosecutors Put Travel Ban on 20 Internet Users
Donga.com (July 9, 2008)
http://english.donga.com/srv/service.php3?biid=2008070910518
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The team responsible for investigating Internet crime under the Supreme Prosecutors' Office announced that it has imposed a travel ban on some 20 Internet users who posted threatening messages on the Internet to companies to stop them from advertising in certain newspapers, including the Dong-A Ilbo.
"After monitoring, we have imposed a travel ban mostly on Internet users and Internet community managers who posted malicious messages frequently," said Prosecutor Kim Soo-nam. "It is likely that the number of people under the travel ban will increase."
The travel ban list includes Internet users who repeatedly posted messages that encouraged the boycotting of companies that ran ads in certain newspapers on the homepages of those companies or on Internet communities, and Internet community managers of Web portal Daum who led the boycott.
Prosecutors will call in some of those under the travel ban to find out whether they stole other people's ID and repeatedly posted threatening messages on the Internet.
So far, prosecutors have analyzed 10,000 Web postings and traced the IP of Internet users who posted the messages to uncover their real identities. |
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Demophobe
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| Posted: Tue Jul 08, 2008 7:10 pm Post subject: |
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No surprise really.
It's getting to the point that people will have to start thinking of the internet as a very public place indeed. Just like areas/suburbs of a massive city.
The techniques needed to find a poster in Korea are old and easy, directly proportional to the level of security being low.
When some poster asked "Which Internet do you use?"...seems there may well be more than one. |
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bassexpander
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| Posted: Tue Jul 08, 2008 7:22 pm Post subject: |
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So if I read this correctly, there is now a crackdown in effect on netizens?
I'll bet this has a lot to do with US Beef and the crap spread on the net.
It's about time the gov't started cracking down. Now they need to start adding fines. Once mommy and daddy get a visit from the police department informing them that their perfect little boy has been spreading lies and may cost them the family fortune -- all hell will break loose. You'll see a lot of jobless, girlfriendless Starcraft players pissing their pants and sulking with their tails between their legs.
Might be interesting to find out later that some of these individuals have Nork connections, as well. |
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Demophobe
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| bassexpander wrote: |
So if I read this correctly, there is now a crackdown in effect on netizens?
I'll bet this has a lot to do with US Beef and the crap spread on the net.
It's about time the gov't started cracking down. Now they need to start adding fines. Once mommy and daddy get a visit from the police department informing them that their perfect little boy has been spreading lies and may cost them the family fortune -- all hell will break loose. You'll see a lot of jobless, girlfriendless Starcraft players pissing their pants and sulking with their tails between their legs.
Might be interesting to find out later that some of these individuals have Nork connections, as well. |
Wow.
Anyways, the netizens were grabbed for very specific reasons, as the article states. |
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bassexpander
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| Posted: Wed Jul 09, 2008 9:41 pm Post subject: |
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This sentence is so important, yet it's ambiguous and difficult to understand:
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| The travel ban list includes Internet users who repeatedly posted messages that encouraged the boycotting of companies that ran ads in certain newspapers on the homepages of those companies or on Internet communities, and Internet community managers of Web portal Daum who led the boycott. |
Are they saying that Internet community managers from Daum are responsible for the boycott, or that they were victims of it?
Knowing this is of interest to me, as my wife deals with website advertising on a daily basis with her company (and did so with her previous company) -- Daum and other portal sites specifically. She knows all about the prices, how they work, etc., because she's personally ordered hundreds of millions of won in advertising on those sites. She's also gotten into it with Daum or Naver (I forget which one) over encouraging customers to rate products on their portal sites in the past. Her previous company's website promotion encouraged people to post their personal reviews of her company's products on portal sites in Korea, and one of the portal sites absolutely flipped.
Daum and Naver are vicious when it comes to advertising dollars, and I wouldn't be at all shocked by anything that took place, as mentioned in that article above.
You wouldn't believe the amount of money involved in virtually every square centimeter of those portal pages. |
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Real Reality
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| Posted: Thu Jul 10, 2008 7:37 pm Post subject: |
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| bassexpander wrote: |
This sentence is so important, yet it's ambiguous and difficult to understand:
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| The travel ban list includes Internet users who repeatedly posted messages that encouraged the boycotting of companies that ran ads in certain newspapers on the homepages of those companies or on Internet communities, and Internet community managers of Web portal Daum who led the boycott. |
Daum and Naver are vicious when it comes to advertising dollars, and I wouldn't be at all shocked by anything that took place, as mentioned in that article above.
You wouldn't believe the amount of money involved in virtually every square centimeter of those portal pages. |
I guess Daum and Naver get a lot of money from advertising.
Speaking of money and costs, how much would this cost?
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| .... Prosecutors will call in some of those under the travel ban to find out whether they stole other people's ID and repeatedly posted threatening messages on the Internet.... So far, prosecutors have analyzed 10,000 Web postings and traced the IP of Internet users who posted the messages to uncover their real identities. |
What would happen if one of the people under a travel ban was a foreigner? Would it be the same thing? |
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