Country: South Korea

It seems that South Koreans have another layer of censorship other than the Ministry of Communication (MIC). Flickr has just created a new “Safesearch” policy that “prohibits users in these places from turning off content filters” thus censoring what one may see on flickr sites from South Korea. Apparently this idea was from Yahoo.com, which has steadily been in the process of becoming king “Tokebi” in Korea and has been a hand to censoring flickr in China as well. I guess this is all per the wishes of Yahoo shareholders who do not seem to care about censorship and do not care even when they wrongfully help put people in jail for the sake of censorship. There is more on the flickr censorship issue here.
Here are a few more blog discussion groups on this. and this synopsis and this explanation.

(source: The Marmot’s Hole)