YouTube Korea no longer allows users to create accounts, upload videos and post comments

[vaksel]

http://googlesystem.blogspot.com/2009/04/youtube-korea-respects-privacy.html

[patio11]

I'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 → patio11]

you 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 → vaksel]

I 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 → mtinkerhess]

Is there really signal on YouTube? I thought you could use the comments as cryptographically secure random noise.

[stcredzero → TJensen]

With a good hash function, that would work! English text has about 2.5 bits of entropy per letter.

[websevenpointoh]

The 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 → websevenpointoh]

Just an FYI this is South Korea.

[websevenpointoh → Retric]

yeah, 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!

[jpwagner]

If this is misinformation, this blogger could end up in jail...

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=560587

[known]

free speech != responsible speech