Just to show that I listen to the mighty Michael P.
let me agree with Shawgi straightoforwardly for once. The
South Korean effort to block the North Korean home page is
simply ridiculous. Period.
Barkley Rosser
On Wed, 11 Sep 1996 05:37:26 -0700 (PDT) SHAWGI TELL
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> A "North Korean HOME Page" has been opened on the Internet.
> According to a south Korean magazine, it carries information about
> the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK), including works
> of Kim Il Sung and Kim Jong Il, slogans of the Workers' Party of
> Korea and material pertinent to education and culture. The Home
> Page also carried detailed reports from DPRK newspapers and the
> Korean Central News Agency and so on.
> This is normal. What is incredible is that upset by this, the
> Agency for National Security Planning, which oversees the
> implementation of south Korea's fascist National Security Law,
> officially asked Internet to block this Home Page.
> A researcher at the Youth Information and Cultural Center said
> that the history of the Internet has seen no example of people
> being punished for monitoring a channel and praising a particular
> group. "What they should block is not the 'North Korean page'," he
> said, "but the U.S. channel dealing with murder, robbery and
> pornography too shameful to watch, depraving young people and
> increasing social unrest and crimes."
> Publications in south Korea said that attempts to block the
> "North Korea Page" are in vain since no equipment has yet been
> invented capable of blocking it out.
>
>
> Shawgi Tell
> University at Buffalo
> Graduate School of Education
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
>
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Rosser Jr, John Barkley
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