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People who post pornographic material on Internet portals such as Naver, Daum and Yahoo and portals which fail to prevent them are looking at fines of up to W100 million (US$1=W923). Portals that manipulate the ranking of popular search words will be slapped with a maximum fine of W30 million.
The Ministry of Information and Communication on Monday is pushing a revision of the Information and Communication Law to ˇ°strengthen the social responsibility of Internet portals,ˇ± Vice Minister Yoo Young-hwan said.
The revised law compels Internet portals to put up the manpower and mechanisms to prevent uploading of pornographic material. Portals have dodged accountability for obscene postings by citing a shortage of manpower.
(englishnews@chosun.com )
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