[IP] S. Korea to Block Pro-Japanese Web Sites Amid Dokdo Dispute
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From: EEkid@xxxxxxx
Date: June 13, 2006 9:33:07 PM EDT
To: dave@xxxxxxxxxx
Subject: S. Korea to Block Pro-Japanese Web Sites Amid Dokdo Dispute
S. Korea to Block Pro-Japanese Web Sites Amid Dokdo Dispute
SEOUL, March 17 (Yonhap) — South Korea’s Internet content regulator
said Thursday it is requiring Daum Communications Corp. to shut down
five pro-Japanese Web sites following Japan’s fresh claim to the
South Korean islets of Dokdo.
“Those sites have a possibility of harming youngsters’ physical and
mental health by distorting historical facts and undermining
international friendship,” the Information Communication Ethics
Committee, affiliated with the Ministry of Information and
Communication, said in a statement.
“Distorting historical facts and undermining international
friendship”? Do they realize what they are saying? Are they blind to
the fact that they are teaching hatred of Japan to children in Korean
schools? Such horrible irony.
The article is from March 2005, which means it can only be viewed in
google cache. The Korean government may have stopped its policy of
censoring opposing view points since then, considering the fact that
relations with Japan have only become worse since then, it is highly
unlikely.
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