Korean Cyber Wall: Day 2
Mr. Roh, tear down this wall!
Message: Mr. Roh, tear down this wall!
Pusan - RIK - On the night of June 24, 2004, the Korean government, without any real warning and without discretion, began raising a cyber wall around Korea, isolating residents and preventing them from accessing outside information. One by one, throughout the following days, internet domains fell under the hammer of the South Korean dictatorial regime. Brick by brick, the government sealed off free speach and free access to information.
The fascist government has justified their campaign of censorship, oppression, and repression by claiming that they must protect the people of South Korea from viewing the corrupting influence of the video of Kim Sun Il’s beheading at the hands of Iraqi terrorists. This protection has extended to seeking out and blocking any and all access to blogs, bulliten boards, commercial, and private domains that reference, post, or link to the Kim Sun Il beheading video. Orgrish.com, blogs.com, typepad.com, blogspot.com, blog-city.com, and others have already been blocked. The list continues to grow as informers report sites to the Korean Ministry of Information and Communication.
With the building of this cyber wall, comes the goverments declaration that hosting, posting, or distributing the Kim Sun Il beheading video is a crime. With in the past 24 hours, 12 citizens have been arrested and taken into custody for uploading and distributing the video through p2p sites. The government plans to continue this campaign until all traces of the video have been eradicated from the Korean internet. Thus, all indications are that censorship, barring access to free and independant voices, arrests, and suppression of truth and dissent will continue and likely increase as time goes by.
Voices of freedom and independant commentators are forced to slink through the back alleys and viaducts of the internet to circumvent the restrictions and avoid the cyber patrols that seek them relentlessly.
This mistake must be rectified. The free world must make it known to the Korean fascist government that these actions will not be tolerated in the 21st century. It must be impressed upon the Korean government that their plans to become the “hub of Asia” will never be fulfilled or realized as long as they continue to abuse their power and authority to stomp on the civil rights and freedoms of the residents of Korea.
Come here to this gate! Mr. Roh, open this gate! Mr. Roh, tear down this wall!