While I may not be a lawyer, I believe that this system is a paper tiger. It is simply impossible for them to enforce it for many reasons.
1. It is impossible for us to determine which users are from South Korea 2. It would be a privacy violation to deliver names and numbers of non Koreans to the Korean government to be vetted for criminal purposes 3. There exists no means by which they can enforce this law upon the Foundation. That being said, I urge the Foundation to check system architecture and work towards placing all personal information databases in a country with real protections, like the United States. This will prevent any future problems of this nature. ________________________________ From: Lars Aronsson <l...@aronsson.se> To: Wikimedia Foundation Mailing List <foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org> Sent: Saturday, April 11, 2009 4:45:37 AM Subject: Re: [Foundation-l] South Korean Government's regulations on real name for Internet RYU Cheol wrote: > If we have to abide by, they will mention us on their list which > will be posted on their web site. So in theory, this could happen to the English language Wikipedia (if enough many Koreans use it), not only the Korean language Wikipedia? Of course the English language Wikipedia has many anonymous and pseudonymous users. So how would the Korean authorities know which ones are Koreans and need to identify? -- Lars Aronsson (l...@aronsson.se) Aronsson Datateknik - http://aronsson.se _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
