The Lee Myung-bak administration and the ruling Grand National Party have begun to actively use the death of Choi Jin-sil as an excuse to legally define a new crime, that of “cyber insult.” They want to expand the program that requires “real name confirmation” of Internet users and to make it easier to have posted comments deleted.
The GNP says it is going to submit and pass a revision to the Information Communications Network Law that it Read the rest of this entry »
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When I was a kid growing up in San Jose, my trusty transistor radio was my first real companion. Baseball games were rarely televised back then, so if you wanted to follow your local team (for me it was the Giants during the heyday of Willie Mays, Willie McCovey, and Orlando Cepeda), the only way was the radio. Many times during class I would sneak a listen to get the score of a game. And on lazy summer days, I would lie back against a tree trunk Read the rest of this entry »