Cnet is linking to a story today reporting that South Korea is cracking down on online porn. Now I don’t usually write about porn, but I was a bit surprised that porn wasn’t banned in South Korea since it has a relatively large and conservative Christian population (about 30%). Yeah, the U.S. has a large Christian population too, but it also has unconditional freedom of speech written into its constitution which largely protects porn sites. I learned today that South Korea also has freedom of speech written into its laws, but there are so many conditions on this "freedom" that it effectively bans anything that might offend anyone. Anyway, the thing that caught my eye was the following excerpt.
Many
Korean Web sites require users to enter their national identification
card numbers to confirm their age to access adult content. But
tech-savvy children can use programs to create false numbers or simply
use their parents’ IDs instead.
I couldn’t help but chuckle a bit, because it’s always like this. Kids are usually so far ahead of their parents, that technology meant to protect them usually requires a kid to install it! On the home front, I’m going to start teaching my kids to code this summer, but it’ll be a little while before they can hack better than I can…heh!