Internet Censorship Law Now Covers Text, Not Just Images
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[ Title Revised 2026.1.6. ] [ Effective Date: 2026.7.7. ] Article 44-7
Chapter 5 User Protection in Information and Communications Networks, etc. Article 44-7 (Prohibition of Distribution of Illegal Information and False/Manipulated Information, etc.) โ No one shall distribute any illegal information (hereinafter referred to as "illegal information") corresponding to any of the following items through an information and communications network nope. [ List of Items Expand ยท Collapse ]
1. Information of a nature that distributes, sells, rents, or publicly displays obscene symbols, text, sounds, images, or videos
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Starting July 7th
Explicit text, sexual descriptions, erotic novels, dirty chatting and all that are now considered illegal content
Are we China or something?
Anyway... be careful with your posts and NSFW memes on community boards from now on..
Sexual comics, text, and images are now classified as "illegal content" in South Korea lmaooo
But why are upvotes only 8 now?
Guess I hit a nerve..
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7 comments
Seriously, shouldn't we all protest? They keep building a censorship state
If we protest they'll just paint us as porn-addicted incels and run with it
this is genuinely concerning though, where does it end? first images, now text... what's next?
That law's been enforced since 2007 โ the content prohibition on obscene material. You've probably heard of internet obscenity distribution charges, right? That's what this is
The law itself already existed, but the problem is NOW the government uses a filter for PRE-censorship before posts go up โ only filtered posts are allowed. The intent is so blatantly obvious lmaooooooooo if you wanna argue look up Information and Communications Network Act Article 44-7-6
I think pre-censorship is stupid and doesn't work, but most people reading the original post or comments think this clause is NEW when it's not
Looked it up โ in 2007 when they defined illegal content they included obscene material distribution, but internet obscenity charges existed in the penalty section before that too
The difference is pre-censorship vs post-censorship, and right now only China does pre-censorship
Looks like a 20-year-old clause... maybe you'd like to share how it feels discovering you've been living in China this whole time??
The censorship sucks but honestly OP you're being dumb โ it's already written in the first line of the law from forever ago: https://www.law.go.kr/LSW//lsLawLinkInfo.do?lsJoLnkSeq=900629576&chrClsCd=010202&lsId=000030&print=print
The feminist activity surge lately is interesting lol similar to when dozens of 'get out and vote' posts were flooding in at the end of 2021
wait so they can censor what i TYPE now?? that's actually insane, basically 1984 at this point ๐
lmaooo this is why i'm switching to carrier pigeons, at least the government can't read those ๐ญ