S. Korea to close more porn sites
p2pnet.net news:- South Korea has already blocked 211 foreign pornographic Web sites, most of them in the United States, as well as all local porn pages.
Now it’s planning on closing down another 180, says the Korea Times.
“We feel obliged to come up with measures to counter the recent woes caused by adult video clips available on the internet,” the story has Suh Byung-jo, director general at the ministry, saying.
His statement followed what the story calls a “set of mishaps early this week involving major portal sites such as Yahoo Korea, Daum Communication and Naver”.
“On March 18, two porn videos were posted on Yahoo Korea, the nation’s second-string Web portal,” says Korea Times, going on:
“More than 20,000 users downloaded the files. Unaware of this, Yahoo Korea left the clips on their site for roughly six hours and a number of minors are believed to have downloaded them.
“Daum, the second-largest portal site, also carried an audio-visual file of foreign fashion models exposing their breasts for approximately seven hours last Tuesday.
“On the same day, a Web surfer posted a nude photo of a woman at the top portal Naver but the company did not remove the picture for about four hours.”
Also See:
Korea Times – Foreign Porn Sites Will Be Blocked, March 23, 2007
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