South Korea's Internet Is More Oppressive Than You Think
It’s considered essential reading for North Korea watchers, regularly cited by international media and academics hungry for information about the world’s most secretive country. But for more than a year, North Korea Tech, a San Francisco-based blog that covers IT developments inside the isolated dictatorship, has been banned in South Korea. Internet censorship in South Korea - Infogalactic: the Internet censorship in South Korea is generally more strict than in other developed countries, and has been compared to internet censorship in countries like Russia and Egypt. Some unique elements to South Korea include the blocking of North Korea-related content, which led to it being categorized as "pervasive" in the conflict/security area by OpenNet Initiative. Internet Censorship in North Korea | Press Freedom | Le VPN Full use of the global Internet is available to only a small handful of high-level officials in the Workers’ Party of Korea. In certain universities, students and faculty may have limited access, though all activity is highly policed and many sites are blocked entirely.
The Korea Communications Standards Commission (KCSC), an internet censorship body, said on Feb. 11 that it had blocked access to 895 overseas-based websites with "harmful" content, including
May 22, 2017
It’s considered essential reading for North Korea watchers, regularly cited by international media and academics hungry for information about the world’s most secretive country. But for more than a year, North Korea Tech, a San Francisco-based blog that covers IT developments inside the isolated dictatorship, has been banned in South Korea.
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