![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
Associated Press: SKorean court ends law requiring real names online
Paragraph 2:
Paragraph 2:
The online naming law took effect in 2007 under a bipartisan push to curb libeling, the spread of false rumors and abusive comments in the cyber space. South Korea saw a flurry of celebrity suicides allegedly motivated by malicious online comments, which mobilized the move to control the Internet space.Anybody know anything about these? This was a couple of years before I was paying any attention to South Korean celebrities, suicidal or not.