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Google has disabled both uploads of videos and comments on the Korean version of YouTube after the South Korean government tried to enforce a new law which requires web sites with at least 100,000 users to verify the person's real name if they upload files or leave comments. The Cyber Defamation Law, as it's called, went into effect on April 1st. According to officials at the Korea Communications Commission (KCC), the country's broadcasting and telecommunications regulator, the law is an attempt to quell the cyber-bullying and spread of misinformation on the internet.
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IN THE recent debate over whether every internet user should be somehow required, possibly by law, to identify himself by a real name, the popular blog site BoingBoing would have been expected to adopt a firm stance. Its editors and... Read Post

South Korea has a Real Names Law that Google has refused to follow. Yet Google Plus users must use their real names… Hypocrisy? Read Post

PC World at Yahoo News writes: 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 t... Read Post