Yap, it's silly. But it's happening in Korea. http://www.koreatimes.co.kr/www/news/biz/2009/04/123_42862.html
2009/4/9 teun spaans <[email protected]>: > "oncurrently April 1 is when the amendment to South Korea’s Act on the > Promotion of Information and Communications Network Utilization and User > Protection will go into effect". > That date smells ;-) > > On Thu, Apr 9, 2009 at 6:53 AM, RYU Cheol <[email protected]> wrote: > >> According to this post, >> >> http://briandeutsch.blogspot.com/2009/03/google-korea-youtube-korea-to-begin.html >> , >> >> "Google, the world’s largest Internet company, has finally submitted >> to South Korea‘s unprecedented Internet regulations, including >> agreeing to implement a “real name” system in which any South Korean >> can post their contents only after they confirm their resident >> registration number." >> >> Wikipedia have to response to this regulation. >> >> Any site which has more than 100,000 visitors for a day have to >> implement real name system according to the regulation. >> We have to check the number of visitors from South Korea. If we have >> more than that, we have to decide if we will allow editing or not from >> South Korea. >> >> It's a serious challenge for Wikipedia. >> >> -Cheol >> >> _______________________________________________ >> foundation-l mailing list >> [email protected] >> Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l >> > _______________________________________________ > foundation-l mailing list > [email protected] > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l > _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
