The editor-in-chief of South Korea’s leading citizen-journalist-based portal, OhmyNews, believes the country’s new prime minister will fail with a radical plan to introduce regulation to put the brakes on the world’s most wired nation – but could smother democracy.South Korea’s recently elected conservative government is planning to tackle what it claims is the misinformation, cyberbullying and mob rule on the internet with sweeping regulation.
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South Korea braced for web clampdown
The editor-in-chief of South Korea’s leading citizen-journalist-based portal, OhmyNews, believes the country’s new prime minister will fail with a radical plan to introduce regulation to put the brakes on the world’s most wired nation – but could smother democracy.