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(News Focus) Mobile Internet on smartphones challenging real-name ID law
By Lee Youkyung
SEOUL, March 12 (Yonhap) -- South Korea's recent decision to exempt Youtube, the world's most-visited video portal, from the country's controversial real-name verification law has resparked a debate about the relevance of current Web regulation amid an increasingly mobile Internet environment, industry sources here said Friday.
The country's regulator said earlier this week that YouTube -- run by U.S. search engine giant Google Inc. -- which recently became available to local customers via many smartphones with a built-in YouTube application, is not compelled to abide by the domestic Internet law. The law, devised partly to stem defamation on the Web, requires users to input their full name and ID number before posting a comment or a video.
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