Google offers Koreans to change their country of residence

Since April 1, a discriminatory law has entered into force in South Korea, which effectively prohibits anonymity in the national segment of the Network. Specifically, the law requires the mandatory identification of users of all sites whose attendance exceeds 100,000 unique users per day. Users are required to specify their real names and exact place of residence when registering, and the site administration must check the veracity of the information and share it with the Korean authorities.

Google, which owns the YouTube site, could identify users, but didn’t want to. “Freedom of expression is the main value of the Internet,” said Rachel Whetstone, vice president of global communications at Google, in a special message to Korean YouTube users (by reference, the text is in Korean). As a result, since April 9, all users who have indicated the place of residence “South Korea” have been blocked from uploading videos to YouTube and posting comments. But if you specify in the profile another country of residence - then they get all the functionality.

Interestingly, after April 9, the administration of the President of South Korea still continues to publish its propaganda videos on YouTube, registering as a foreign user.
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This is not the first time that YouTube falls under censorship restrictions. In March of this year, the Chinese Communist Party blocked access to YouTube to residents of their country, even without giving a reason (most likely due to the popularity of the video, where Chinese police beat Tibetan monks).

via Hankyoreh