@JM1981 Kim Jong Il,no -- Lee Myung Bak, yes. Korea has had an Internet ID law for a couple of years now. It's a royal pain and means that non-Koreans can't joins conversations on Korean websites. Unless we're going to a world-wide ID, this would just Balkanize the Internet. I hated the Korean law when I was there.
The law was passed because an actress was accused of some stuff on some forums, including having money problems. She ended up committing suicide. While her death is a serious matter, there wasn't really any more "cyber bullying" than any celeb normally receives.
Instead of using her death as a way to discuss whether suicide is the appropriate response to being accused of something on the Internet, a law was passed to make all comments on sites over a certain size verifiable. It saddened me. There is no anonymous speech in Korea.
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