[IP] S. Korea to Block Pro-Japanese Web Sites Amid Dokdo Dispute

[David Farber <dave@farber.net>]

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From: EEkid@aol.com
Date: June 13, 2006 9:33:07 PM EDT
To: dave@farber.net
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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