4. Korea Policing the Net. Twist? It’s South Korea.

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/08/13/world/asia/critics-see-south-korea-internet-curbs-as-censorship.html?ref=world

Choe Sang-hoe published an article about a new government crackdown on internet freedom in South Korea. Because the internet allows people to openly criticize government officials and policy, the government has been censoring it more than ever. To illustrate this, the author lists a few examples on this new censoring policy: A critic who called the president a curse word on Twitter had his account  blocked and a judge who criticize the president's censoring policy was soon fired. For South Korea, an exemplary democratic country, to act this way seems surprising. The author even compared  South Korea's crackdown on internet freedom to China's. The author explains that this is do to South Korea wanting to embrace the web as a valuable source to compete with other economies while keeping its "patriarchal and somewhat puritanical past." Activists such as Chang Yeo-kyung highly criticize the governments censoring. He says that "The government wants to create a chilling effect to prevent the spread of critical views.

The purpose of the author was to describe South Korea's new crackdown on internet freedom and illustrate how it can be damaging to society.