South Korea is trying to prevent access to a video of the beheading of Korean hostage Kim Sun-il in Iraq. The Ministry of Information ordered South Korean ISPs to block access to the video, which was beginning to appear on foreign sites. The Koreans are actually blocking all sites that contain the word “beheading.” Suggested by Anthony Townsend, whose site was one of those blocked. According to the blog Ruminations in Korea, entire domains are blocked if they host a blog that carry the video.
South Korea is trying to prevent access to a video of the beheading of Korean hostage Kim Sun-il in Iraq. The Ministry of Information ordered South Korean ISPs to block access to the video, which was beginning to appear on foreign sites. The Koreans are actually blocking all sites that contain the word “beheading.” Suggested [...]
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@ 09:52
Update: The Korea Ministry of Information and Communications appears to have asked all Korean ISPs to block popular blog hosting sites like TypePad, so the whole blogs.com domain has been blocked due to a few people hosting video from their personal TypePad blogs.
You’d think the most wired country on the planet could do Internet censorship a little more selectively.
@ 09:53
Update: The Korea Ministry of Information and Communications appears to have asked all Korean ISPs to block popular blog hosting sites like TypePad, so the whole blogs.com domain has been blocked due to a few people hosting video from their personal TypePad blogs.
You’d think the most wired country on the planet could do Internet censorship a little more selectively.
@ 12:02
Sadly, Korea’s recent totalitarian past is knocking on the door again. A long time American resident in Korea has contacted the Ministry, see http://oranckay.net/blog?theDate=200406253 for details, and was told that “only sites that are reported by the general public as being ‘hazardous’ are being blocked and can’t figure why [he] can’t load ‘marmot.blogs.com/korea’ or ‘gopkorea.blogs.com/flyingyangban’ when they’re not on the MIC’s ‘banned’ list, which is constantly being updated.”
Apaprently, they are just banning the IP addresses.
No, the guys who made Korea the most wired nation are not the guys who hold the key…
@ 21:38
According to today’s Korea Times, the MoIC has blocked over 40 foreign websites… put the video is still ciruculating inside Korea on p2p networks.
http://times.hankooki.com/lpage/nation/200406/kt2004062717200911960.htm