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Don't text 'beer' in Korea: Words that trigger teen alerts
- function_seven 11y agoLike Korean teenagers won't immediately develop a code words to evade this. I'm not sure if there's already an equivalent to l33tsp34k in Korean, but if not, there is now.
- ape4 11y agoIts like a social experiment. How long until the teens will be speaking/texting a language that adults don't understand.
- EarthLaunch 11y agoOr; find out who is more agile - teens or government.
- dimino 11y agoSeoulite rhyming slang?
- bigdubs 11y agoB33r?
- stephengillie 11y ago맥주 (maegju) can become 0|-|ㄱ 주, right? ;)
- devonkim 11y agoI'm not even sure what words they're censoring, that might not even be it potentially. If it's 술 then you'd get like 500 other words stuck in context with it like I dunno, 요술. Filtering for certain words is probably a lot easier in Korean than in English and concatenating that all together is probably about as easy to guess as 13375p34k in English.
- kobepanda 11y agoHaha I like that. Most likely will be ㅁㅈ though unless that's already on the list. Anecdotally I've seen whole messages written using the first piece of the Hangeul square. Seems like that would be a nightmare to keep track of for these programs and relatively easy for kids to perfect.
- ddoolin 11y ago비2어? B2어?
- fuzzywalrus 11y agoI can only imagine when teens get ahold of chat to SMS services and decide to troll classmates with keywords. Seems like instant harassment results.
- dwg 11y agoI think you're absolutely right. Not sure about Korean, but Japanese youngn's have already invented their own obfuscated script called ギャル文字 (Gyaru-moji): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gyaru-moji http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gyaru-moji. I've tried to read it but it's quite difficult. What's interesting, however, is how fast it could evolve. The authorities will have a hard time keeping up even when they do catch on.
- beeworker 11y agoIt's safe to use "420", the cops don't know man.
- droidist2 11y agoWhat's IS? Islamic State?
- jefe_ 11y agoSon: "He didn't used to be the Prime Minister of the UK, he IS the Prime Minister of the UK." Dad: "Learn some respect and dial back your certainty or I'll install an app to do it for you!"
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- pki 11y ago>the country's telecoms regulator ordered monitoring applications be installed on the smartphones of Koreans aged 18 and below This is disgusting to read, in all seriousness. Not allowed to have a blog without linking it to their SSN, not allowed to play games without linking it to their SSN, all communications monitored, chat logged.. holy shit. Getting a mobile phone also requires one.. (and that's not even counting the heavy internet censorship, porn illegality and free speech restrictions)
- sooheon 11y agoIt's infuriating to live in a country with such outstanding tech infrastructure to be shackled with these insane policies. Not to mention ActiveX and eight different plugin downloads for nearly any transaction, Spring/Java being considered the cutting edge in web development, and the downright Fascist porn restrictions (no I'm not bitter).
- pki 11y agoAlmost every Korean site tries to force feed some malware rootkit from ahnlab or nprotect, this is even more disturbing when you note that ahnlab's founder is apparently part of the Korean government now Though Korea did result in one of the funniest things I've ever seen: apparently a lot of Korean companies have a strong need to "hide their proprietary website's source code" by iframing their pages multiple layers deep and making every link javascript:GoToAboutUs() so the url doesn't show up, and then window.locationing it
- curiously 11y agoDr. Ahn even tried to run for president and likely to try again in the future. Mention 'snowden' or 'privacy' and people won't bat an eye in Korea I bet. Pretty much same with most countries. People just don't seem to give a damn, the same old 'im not a criminal so I am okay with catching terrorists by spying and controlling the rest of the population'.
- ygmelnikova 11y agoWhat kind of degenerate society likens the restriction of teenager's ability to view porn to Fascism?
- GeneralMayhem 11y agoAmong the many reasons this is frightening: >"Smart Sheriff" app was funded by the South Korean government primarily to block access to pornography and other offensive content online. But its features go well beyond that. So forcibly blocking "offensive content" is a-ok, it's only when it goes beyond that that there's a problem.
- stephengillie 11y agoSomething that is a Slippery Slope to one person is Progress to another.
- pki 11y agoSK already has national "great firewall" that does heavy censorship, not only porn is blocked.
- mg1982 11y agoReddit and, for some reason, techcrunch, for example. Scared the shit out of me the first time I got this: https://readtiger.com/img/wkp/en/KCSC-Warning.png https://readtiger.com/img/wkp/en/KCSC-Warning.png
- pki 11y agoWhy settle for an image? http://warning.or.kr http://warning.or.kr Bonus 2001 javascript throwback: they try to block right click.
- yellowapple 11y agoI love how the whole top banner is a static image.
- bjornsteffanson 11y agoThen you're going to love every other Korean website, too.
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- serve_yay 11y agoIt's impressive how shitty this website is.
- egypturnash 11y ago> "Smart Relief" is a mobile app for parental control of Android smartphones. [...] Smart Relief is not one of the 15 apps [that the government requires to be installed on teen phones] but shares similar features with them. Why isn't this article dissecting one of the apps that is mandatory for teenager's phones, then?
- egypturnash 11y ago> "Smart Relief" is a mobile app for parental control of Android smartphones. [...] Smart Relief is not one of the 15 apps [that the government requires to be installed on teen phones] but shares similar features with them. Why isn't this article dissecting one of the apps that is mandatory for teenager's phones, then?
- suprgeek 11y agoThis is the digital equivalent of America's beer laws - you cannot drink till you are 21; but hey you can vote, get married, join the army (and drive a tank or handle nukes presumably) but NO DRINKING! Every single American college person I have talked to (almost without exception) talks about the non-stop binges they go on when they hit 21. Now the South Korean kids will go on Digital binges when they hit 18 - what will that be like (!).
- trynumber9 11y ago> Every single American college person I have talked to (almost without exception) talks about the non-stop binges they go on when they hit 21. Yeah, but those start as soon as you show up to university. Typically that's before 21.
- adventured 11y agoThose drinking binges do not start at 21, they start at ~18 (or earlier), when people go off to college / enter adulthood. By the time Americans are 21, drinking isn't a new fascination any longer. Personally I've never met someone that waited until 21 to be legal and then began drinking furiously.
- dluan 11y agoThis is funny, because before I turned 21, I just learned how to make my own beer. Was always a hoot at parties.
- tracker1 11y agoHey kids, now your parents can't tell you to take out the "garbage" it's a bad word...
- konsptheorist 11y agoSouth Korea is taking the "Nanny State" concept to a whole new level.
- fiatjaf 11y agoWhat is the difference between south and north now?