Posted June 29, 200718 yr Thu Jun 28, 4:40 AM ET SEOUL (AFP) - South Korea on Thursday started enforcing a new law aimed at curbing the country's notorious cyber bullying by preventing Internet users from hiding behind false IDs. Under the "Internet real-name system," the country's major portals and news media websites will be compelled to record the real IDs of users when they post entries. Portal operators will be obliged to disclose personal information such as names and addresses of cyber attackers when their victims want to sue them for libel or infringement upon privacy. "From today, users will be asked to give their real name and social security number before being allowed to write their postings," said a spokesman of Daum, one of the country's top portals which boasts of 38 million users. Cyber bullying has become a social issue in South Korea as many celebrities often fall victim to abuse and malicious attacks. Many Internet users, taking advantage of anonymity, have made a hobby of writing malicious messages on websites, accusing celebrities of sex scandals or having plastic surgery, experts said. TV star Jeong Da-Bin and pop singer Yuni reportedly suffered cyber bullying before they committed suicide earlier this year. South Korea's top portal operators such as Daum and Naver, along with 33 others, are subject to the new regulation. South Korea is one of the world's most wired countries, with nearly a third of its 48 million population having access to high-speed Internet.
June 29, 200718 yr sounds like a good idea, too often nerds hide behind an online persona and 'play' at being something else. on other sites ive seen it, nerdy little wimps pretending to be 'hard'.
June 29, 200718 yr Thu Jun 28, 4:40 AM ET SEOUL (AFP) - South Korea on Thursday started enforcing a new law aimed at curbing the country's notorious cyber bullying by preventing Internet users from hiding behind false IDs. Under the "Internet real-name system," the country's major portals and news media websites will be compelled to record the real IDs of users when they post entries. Portal operators will be obliged to disclose personal information such as names and addresses of cyber attackers when their victims want to sue them for libel or infringement upon privacy. "From today, users will be asked to give their real name and social security number before being allowed to write their postings," said a spokesman of Daum, one of the country's top portals which boasts of 38 million users. Cyber bullying has become a social issue in South Korea as many celebrities often fall victim to abuse and malicious attacks. Many Internet users, taking advantage of anonymity, have made a hobby of writing malicious messages on websites, accusing celebrities of sex scandals or having plastic surgery, experts said. TV star Jeong Da-Bin and pop singer Yuni reportedly suffered cyber bullying before they committed suicide earlier this year. South Korea's top portal operators such as Daum and Naver, along with 33 others, are subject to the new regulation. South Korea is one of the world's most wired countries, with nearly a third of its 48 million population having access to high-speed Internet. Sounds like an invasion of privacy to me Why should the honest 99% suffer invasions of privacy because of the actions of the dishonest 1% ? IP addresses are more than sufficient IMHO without needing name, address, NI number and so on
June 29, 200718 yr Sounds like an invasion of privacy to me Why should the honest 99% suffer invasions of privacy because of the actions of the dishonest 1% ? IP addresses are more than sufficient IMHO without needing name, address, NI number and so on the innocent 99% wont 'suffer', theres nothing to 'suffer', its only the bad 'uns thatll feel the effect. if cyber bullying is really that bad then something has to be done, and innocent people will be effected. but that already happens here... airports for eg, unfortunately we live in a world where freedom is under threat.
June 29, 200718 yr the innocent 99% wont 'suffer', theres nothing to 'suffer', its only the bad 'uns thatll feel the effect. if cyber bullying is really that bad then something has to be done, and innocent people will be effected. but that already happens here... airports for eg, unfortunately we live in a world where freedom is under threat. They will suffer though mate with the additional information they will have to provide which as well as tracking everything they say online could possibly be used for marketing purposes as well as anything else, the more information that is given out by internet users the more susceptible we are to spam. Someone can already be traced through their IP address and even if they use a proxy it can still be traced so I just think that is sufficient information. Cyber bullying is a problem yes but ultimately it is the responsibility of the victim to ignore it, I have been an attempted victim of it before with false smears about my private life but I ignored it and it went away If a celeb wants to sue someone for libel because of messages posted on a newgroup then the ISP is duty bound by law to trace the poster via their IP address, I just feel that this is sufficient information as opposed to name, address, NI number, inside leg measurement or anything else that these people want to know
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