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 counting the heavy internet censorship, porn illegality and free speech restrictions)
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
Mention 'snowden' or 'privacy' and people won't bat an eye in Korea I bet. Pretty much same with most countries. People just don't seem to give a damn, the same old 'im not a criminal so I am okay with catching terrorists by spying and controlling the rest of the population'.
If we're talking teenagers, imagine googling sex ed terms and having to enter your ssn[0]
[0]http://googlesystem.blogspot.com/2008/03/age-verification-at...
You can't restrict anything anyway. Any filter is porous and everything gets thru. One hardcore image is enough.
The only thing you really achieve is humiliating the teenager, make him feel not in control of his life.
I know that you try to restrain me like I'm a parrot instead of taking to me; you are explicit in trying to conceal from me something that you point me at by this attempt.
sooheon, who suggested that he/she lives in Korea, made no such stipulation. Of note, distribution (and maybe possession -- I am not sure) of porn is illegal in Korea in general -- not just for those under 18.
Also, nice job inserting 'teenagers' into a comment that made no mention of any age group.
In Florida it's a felony. Florida Statute 847.012 - Max 5 years.
Why? Because it's degenerate, and <i>your</i> state agrees.
And no, my country does not require minors to install state-mandated applications on their smartphones. For any reason, porn or otherwise.
Also, pornography isn't degenerate. It's just sex. Exploitative pornagraphy is bad, but there's nothing inherently wrong with it. But we generally prevent minors from accessing it because they're not emotionally equipped to deal with sex stuff - same reason we have age of consent laws. Or do you also think that sex itself is degenerate, and that's why there are laws around teenagers and who they can have sex with?
I just use Bing (disclosure: MS employee but would like search engine choice).
It's a Chrome extension. Based on sockets proxy.
Occasionally, it got blocked, but they would recover it in the next day.
You mean the kind of child abuse that's been occurring for centuries before we even thought up the electron? Or are just worried about how these images of abuse end up getting distributed?
If it's the latter, then fine, censor the internet. If it's the former, you're going to need a more comprehensive plan.
I'll give you my favorites.
For intellectual property, it is not real property. Property is the category of things that are material and can exchange hands. Data, like speech, does not get literally exchanged, but copied. So there's no such thing as intellectual property.
Imagine you can memorize whole books. Would that be illegal? What if your friends could phone you and ask you to recite some paragraphs from memory, would that be illegal? What if you were part of a group of people that memorized the books they own and they ask each other to recite over the phone one page a day from a book they don't have? A hard-drive is a shortcut for that brain capacity we don't yet have. But if we did have that capacity to memorize, it would not be illegal. So instead of enjoying hard-drives to freely books and songs, we are criminalizing an arbitrary human enhancement.
For child pornography, I find it hard to justify the suppression of criminal evidence. We all should fear a government that has the power to arrest someone and suppress the evidence for their crime. If someone kills someone else even if just to film it, that would be a crime (or many crimes) but the video should not be illegal to possess. Evidence of gruesome deaths (intentional or not) are likewise legal to possess. What should be illegal is the act in itself, not the documentation with which we prove the crime.
Thing is that we are dealing with a mangled sex drive here, and you can't get any more basic than that (the sex drive can even override the drive for self preservation).
The only way to really solve the problem would be to find a way to test for it clinically, and some way to rectify the problem at a neural level. But i wonder what other devils we will uncork if we ever get the means to do so...
"Safe, bland uniformity"? Lives are at stake. People's safety is at stake.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Committee_of_Public_Safety
Mean words on the internet put nobody's life at risk.
Well aren't you a nasty piece of work. Using a straw man to claim harassment doesn't exist.
> Mean words on the internet put nobody's life at risk.
Completely untrue. People have been bullied into suicide many, many times. Vulnerable people can have their address revealed and receive physical attacks or be outright murdered. Hate speech can incite violence.
Get out of your fantasy land. Speech and action are not divorced, and words usually hurt far more than sticks or stones.
North Korea even had a head start by a far margin. Up until 1970s, North Korea was pretty much the better equipped, better fed, and stronger military force.
South Korea would not have survived had it not had military dictatorship guarding against North Korean aggression both externally and internally (lot of bitter South Koreans wanting communism).
It's shameful.
Likely the reason it gets a pass is because it has the shit can that is NK next door.
In a sense the Korean peninsula is the cold war in a microcosm.
It is disturbing to read that Korea is forcing its teenagers to live under the kind of oppressive surveillance that is enforced by countries like the United States, Canada, Britain, and Australia.