Feel uncomfortable answering that question? Well, so they hell do I. But now if you're in Korea and want to do anything on Youtube other than watch videos, you have to give them a real name. Check out what just popped up today when I tried making a comment.



This law is intended to get people to post responsibly online. Instead it just means that people/government/cops can find where you live if you post something they don't like.

To twist the knife just a little bit more, since I'm a foreigner it's difficult for me to prove my identity satisfactorily for Korean-controlled websites. Which means Youtube is basically off-limits for me.

Fortunately the close account function was still working.

WTF? The whole idea of the internet was the ability to post your opinions anonymously without fear of getting arrested or worse. I don't know how open SK is about internet stuff but apparently not very.

Posted by fedge WTF? The whole idea of the internet was the ability to post your opinions anonymously without fear of getting arrested or worse. I don't know how open SK is about internet stuff but apparently not very.

I've always likened it to a gated community. Weirder yet, at times the main Korean e-mail providers will block their members from receiving e-mails from foreign accounts. I still don't understand that.

It's worst around election time because you're not legally allowed to say anything critical of candidates.

We'll be seeing a lot more of these:

http://www.koreati.../01/117_37960.html

TOR For the win!

www.torproject.org/
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tor_(anonymity_network)



Work it right and you can tunnel out of S.Korea again, but this time end up in a more friendly say European or North American country. When you hit You Tube from there you won't have to verify nothing.

I was going to suggest torpark aswell.

If not , try :

https://dtunnel.com

(proxy)

and click the "remove scripts" option so the box isnt checked.


Works for me everyday @ work for youtube

my name is Scott
but that's all you'll get out of me.

I use the name Bob Barker for everything

Alias: FEDGE
Real Name: David Shinebeck-Lowenstein
Address: 812 Midland Avenue
Toronto, ON
M1K 4E7

Well okay, apparently real name, thanks. I have numerous false identities online, and even family members of those false identities who I also portray.

Good news is I found out all you need to do to circumvent this one safety feature is to set your account to say you're not in Korea. No firewall needed whatsoever. I still hope those bastards at YouTube read the message I sent them though.

Posted by fedge Alias: FEDGE Real Name: David Shinebeck-Lowenstein Address: 812 Midland Avenue Toronto, ON M1K 4E7

Ditto.

aka Lord Rick

Stumled across this today:


Google Disables Uploads, Comments on YouTube Korea

Google has disabled user uploads and comments on the Korean version of its YouTube video portal in reaction to a new law that requires the real name of a contributor be listed along each contribution they make.

The rules, part of a Cyber Defamation Law, came into effect on April 1 for all sites with over 100,000 unique visitors per day. It requires that users provide their real name and national ID card number.

In response to the requirements Google has stopped users from uploading via its Korean portal rather than start a new registration system.

"We have a bias in favor of freedom of expression and are committed to openness," said Lucinda Barlow, a spokeswoman for YouTube in Asia. "It's very important that if users want to be anonymous that they have that chance."

But while the move obeys the letter of the law it skirts around the spirit of it by allowing users based in South Korea to continue uploading and commenting on YouTube by switching their preference setting to a country other than Korea.

YouTube noted this work-around on its Korean Web site and any videos and comments contributed this way will still be seen by Internet users in the country.

The decision was taken after close consultation and debate between Google Korea and its headquarters, Barlow said.

The new law was rushed into force after the suicide of a popular actress in October focused attention on the problem of online bullying in the highly-connected country.

Choi Jin Sil was apparently driven to suicide after a series of online rumors had her pressuring a fellow actor to repay a loan she had made to him. The actor, Ahn Jae Hwan, had killed himself a month earlier.

The suicide was the latest in a string of so-called cyber-bullying incidents in the country and helped generate support for the stricter law.

The first high-profile case occurred in 2005 and involved a woman who quickly became known as "dog poop girl." After her dog defecated on the Seoul subway and she failed to clean it up, a fellow traveller posted a picture of her online with an account of the incident. The story spread fast and within days a campaign had identified her, where she lived, and the university she attended. In the end, she reportedly dropped out of school and fled her home because of the controversy.

Already many major Korean portals and Web sites require users to provide their national ID card number when registering accounts but Google, which has a much smaller profile in South Korea than it enjoys in the west, does not ask for this information so the law would have also required it to build a new verification system.

Yeah, it's interesting and not what I first thought.

I strongly believe that real name laws would cause more cyber bullying, not less.

How do they verify if you really enter your REAL name ?

I'd just enter Mike McLovin or some shit like that.

Posted by Mickael How do they verify if you really enter your REAL name ? I'd just enter Mike McLovin or some shit like that.

National ID numbers. In order to register, your real name and your ID must match.

Of course this means identity theft is big business. A few years back, the police contacted my wife because she'd "registered" on some MMO game site, made a bunch of sales, collected the money, and signed off.

Logtec = Rusty Shackleford...

My name is Clara.

Hi!

Posted by logtec Logtec = Rusty Shackleford...

Really...? Rusty?

Hi, my name is Todd Davis, and my real social security number is 457-55-5462.

Hello. My name is Mandy.