27 Mar 2007

South Korea blocks foreign porn sites

If you're in South Korea, you probably can't see this right now. That sucks.

The government of South Korea has had a major strop and banned a whole bunch of foreign porn sites.

Interesting to note the wording of this article - 'foreign porn sites'. So does this presumably mean that homegrown porn sites are alright but ones from outside South Korea are being frowned upon? I can't quite figure out the logic behind this.

If anything, sites like Japanese Bukkake Orgy have taught us that those Orientals can be as filthy, if not more so, than anyone else in the world. Admittedly, that site is from a neighbour of theirs, but there is a lot of Korean content on there if I remember rightly.

I do like the fact though that these moves are being orchestrated by a branch of the South Korean government calling themselves The Ministry for Communication and Information. With moves like this, they need to add the prefix 'mis-' to those two elements.

But if the internet has taught us anything (aside from the 'fact' that some fat kid pretending to be in Star Wars is apparently supposed to be funnier than hell) it's that people will find a way to look at porn. So, I'll keep a candle lit for you porn consumers in South Korea - I'm sure you'll find a way.

Posted by Steve 18:18:00