Friday, July 01, 2005

S.Korea - name and shame

The South Korean Government is seeking to remove the anonymity of those posting messages online after the hounding of a woman who didn't clean up after her dog on the subway. An example of hard cases making for bad laws ? The woman's school web site was bombarded with hate mail after her picture was posted on the internet more from the JoongAng Daily The same issue has often come up in the US and the drawbacks of removing anonymity have been most succinctly summarised by the Electronic Frontier Foundation.

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