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YouTube Korea no longer allows users to create accounts, upload videos and post comments
- patio11 18y agoI'm not generally in favor of speech-limiting legislation to protect the powerful from the people but if it results in comments getting turned off on Youtube, well, every cloud has a silver lining. Who do I have to donate to to get stupidly overreaching and almost certainly unconstitutional legislation passed in the US?
- vaksel 18y agoyou have it backwards, they are protecting the people from the government which passed a law requiring the use of real information to link accounts
- mtinkerhess 18y agoI think the joke is that suppressive, unconstitutional legislation is acceptable if a side effect is that people can't comment on YouTube -- a site which is notorious for its low signal to noise ratio.
- TJensen 18y agoIs there really signal on YouTube? I thought you could use the comments as cryptographically secure random noise.
- stcredzero 18y agoWith a good hash function, that would work! English text has about 2.5 bits of entropy per letter.
- websevenpointoh 18y agoThe state of many nations (China, North Korea) is quite scary. Anonymity is a requirement if the people are to be given free speech (without fear of their government -- although people should never fear their government).
- Retric 18y agoJust an FYI this is South Korea.
- websevenpointoh 18y agoyeah, thanks. i suppose that's why we're all taught to read closely. scary to see things like this coming from south korea as well!
- known 18y agofree speech != responsible speech
- jpwagner 18y agoIf this is misinformation, this blogger could end up in jail... http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=560587 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=560587