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The Fantasy of Opting Out
- deogeo 7y ago> Consider a day in the life of a fairly ordinary person in a large city in a stable, democratically governed country. You might think, as long as you're in a (currently!) stable, democratically governed country (so not North Korea, China, Russia, Belarus, Philippines, Saudi Arabia, Nicaragua,... wow, that's a lot of exceptions! I'm sure I missed plenty, too), what do you have to worry about? Well, lets look at what happens in the stable, democratically governed country of South Korea: In 2007, numerous bloggers were censored and their posts deleted by police for expressing criticism of, or even support for, presidential candidates. This even led to some bloggers being arrested by the police. Subsequently, in 2008, just before a new presidential election, new legislation that required all major Internet portal sites to require identity verification of their users was put into effect. [1] [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_censorship_in_South_Korea https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_censorship_in_South_K...