Re: [Foundation-l] South Korean Government's regulations on real name for Internet

2009-04-11 Thread Geoffrey Plourde
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 t

Re: [Foundation-l] South Korean Government's regulations on real name for Internet

2009-04-11 Thread David Gerard
2009/4/10 RYU Cheol : > Here we have, http://ko.wikipedia.org/User:Ryuch/realname > I qouted the names in the announcement of Communication Commission. > It includes Yahoo and Microsoft as well as Google. > Yahoo and Microsoft submitted to the law. And YouTube said "what? ahahaha no." http://www

Re: [Foundation-l] South Korean Government's regulations on real name for Internet

2009-04-11 Thread Mark Williamson
For that matter, how would they know which people at ko.wp are Korean citizens? Mark 2009/4/11 Lars Aronsson : > 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

Re: [Foundation-l] South Korean Government's regulations on real name for Internet

2009-04-11 Thread Lars Aronsson
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 Wik