Hacker News Reader

Comment by westiseast | Hacker News Reader

Is your point that S.Korea does it, so it's OK? Or that we're all a bunch of hypocrites and shouldn't comment?

This sounds like whataboutism - if you follow the link and read the wikipedia page, it seems like lots of people made lots of fuss about it, including the United Nations, EFF, S.Korean press etc.

View on HN

If you read it careful enough you will notice the criticism cited there includes things like blog posts and UN speeches, nothing comparable to TC articles in terms of range of influence. Now what's so special about this incident so it's worth a whole precious TC headline to make everyone aware of it?

Coverage

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2011/08/what-south-korea...

https://thenextweb.com/asia/2012/08/23/south-korea-scraps-la...

https://mobile.nytimes.com/2011/09/05/technology/naming-name...

https://techcrunch.com/2012/07/29/surprisingly-good-evidence...

These are coverage when it finally failed. What about when it was first implemented? This TC article can't even wait.

Please, search for yourself. There are many articles critizing South Korea censorship, back then and now.

It feels like you feel you have to defend the Chinese government. That's your good right, just don't use a strawman. It doesn't make your point stronger.

China is quite a bit bigger than South Korea and is placing itself to be a world Superpower. I'd say that's why it's a big deal.

Reply on news.ycombinator.com