Korea Communications Standards Commission

The Korea Communications Standards Commission is South Korea's Internet censorship body.[1]

The KCSC replaced an earlier body, the Information and Communication Ethics Committee.[1]

On September 2011, the KCSC has decided to open up its three discussion committees to the public.[2]

The KCSC has required Korean citizens to enter government issued ID numbers in order to post political comments online.[3]

Censorship

SNS

The KCSC planned to set up a regulatory office dedicated to supervise the posts on SNS outlets.[8] However, the Constitutional Court of Korea has ruled against KCSC's decision to regulate voting-related posts on SNS outlets.[9]

Criticism

See also

References

  1. 1 2 Jillian York and Rainey Reitman (September 6, 2011). "In South Korea, the Only Thing Worse Than Online Censorship is Secret Online Censorship". Electronic Frontier Foundation.
  2. Kim (김), Byeong-gyu (병규) (2011-09-12). 방통심의위, 소위원회 회의 공개키로. Yonhap News (in Korean). Retrieved 2011-09-26.
  3. "Why South Korea is really an internet dinosaur". www.economist.com. The Economist. 10 February 2014. Retrieved 10 February 2014.
  4. Kim (김), Jeong-seop (정섭) (2008-05-08). "李대통령 비판글 지워달라"…방통위, 포털에 댓글삭제 요구. Kyunghyang Sinmun (in Korean). Retrieved 2011-09-09.
  5. Sohn (손), Bong-seok (봉석) (2011-10-20). "방송통신위 SNS 심의 추진에 여야 모두 비판". The Kyunghyang Shinmun (in Korean). Retrieved 2011-11-20.
  6. Cha (차), Hyeong-seok (형석) (2011-06-10). 인터넷 방송 모니터링은 여론 길들이기. SisaInLive (in Korean). Retrieved 2011-11-27.
  7. Chae (채), Ji-eun (지은) (2011-07-07). 방통심의委, 권력 눈치보기 언제까지…. Hankook Ilbo (in Korean). Retrieved 2011-11-28.
  8. Kim, Rahn (2011-12-01). "SNS faces tighter scrutiny". Korea Times. Retrieved 2011-12-31.
  9. Choi, He-suk (2011-12-29). "Court rules against ban on SNS in elections". Korean Herald. Retrieved 2011-12-31.
  10. Im (임), Ji-yeong (지영) (2011-11-18). 징계 또 징계, <무한도전> 잔혹사. SisInLive (in Korean). Retrieved 2011-11-20.

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