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To my knowledge, Korean netizens top the list when it comes to being annoying and rude. Excessive pride and a collective chip on the shoulders will never produce civilized individuals in an environment of encouraged anonymity. To add insult to injury, South Korea is one of the most wired countries in the world, and the mob mentality only increases the rudeness of these trolls. And, since the rest of the world is not that much better than the Koreans, the stage is set for pages and pages of stupidity.
Sports message boards seem to be an area of special interest to these idiots. And whenever Korea is slightly involved there's always the presences of the stupid Korean troll and the even more stupid antagonizers they seem to attract so easily. A good example would be the public message boards for the 2002 World Cup. It's been a long time ago but I remember that the conspiracy theory (Korea's progress in the competition was facilitated by bribes and not by their own football prowess) generated several heated online arguments. More often than not, these discussions became race oriented and people were talking more about the size of their dicks than football.
Another good example are the Major League Baseball message boards of whatever team has a Korean player. In the years when Chan Ho Park was performing well in Los Angeles, half of the posts in the Dodgers message boards were about him and most of them didn't discuss any baseball but were merely praising the Korean pitcher's talent (back then he was good), often in broken English.
The same thing happened when Chan Ho Park signed with Texas for an absurd amount of money. The Rangers message boards were infested with Koreans and their usual posts about Park and Korean Pride. By this time though, he wasn't performing well at all (that was probably one of the worst free agent contracts ever) and this attitude by Korean trolls of course attracted the worst reactions from people and, soon enough, nasty comments involving nationalities and races were more predominant than baseball discussions.
These insults would never take place in the real world or if the authors had to identify themselves. Most of the insulting comments are made by cowards anyway and cowards are not known to do anything that may harm them physically (like risking their faces to the violent encounter with an incoming fist).
So, what if everybody in the Internet had to identify themselves?
No, I'm not saying that you should supply your SSN, address, age, gender and cock size whenever you want to access porn or read the news in the Internet. No identification needed on downloads, only uploads. If you want to access content, you can do it anonymously, but if you want to create content you have to identify yourself.
In my solution, everybody would get an IIN (Internet Identification Number) and this would be linked to whatever governmental agency it is that keeps information from people in any given country. This number would not be available for everybody but then again, the authorities would have an easy way to track people if any virtual crime happened in the Internet.
The IIN would be necessary in any event where the netizen wants to contribute something to the Internet. Any website like MySpace, Facebook, Blogger and Orkut would require one. Anytime you wanted to post a comment on a blog you would need one. Anytime you wanted to create an user on a message board you would need one. Anytime you wanted to create an email address you would need one.
I believe that with this IIN in mind, assholes around the world would have to think twice before contributing something harmful or stupid. Although a lot less fun, the Internet be a lot safer place for everybody.
To my knowledge, Korean netizens top the list when it comes to being annoying and rude. Excessive pride and a collective chip on the shoulders will never produce civilized individuals in an environment of encouraged anonymity. To add insult to injury, South Korea is one of the most wired countries in the world, and the mob mentality only increases the rudeness of these trolls. And, since the rest of the world is not that much better than the Koreans, the stage is set for pages and pages of stupidity.
Sports message boards seem to be an area of special interest to these idiots. And whenever Korea is slightly involved there's always the presences of the stupid Korean troll and the even more stupid antagonizers they seem to attract so easily. A good example would be the public message boards for the 2002 World Cup. It's been a long time ago but I remember that the conspiracy theory (Korea's progress in the competition was facilitated by bribes and not by their own football prowess) generated several heated online arguments. More often than not, these discussions became race oriented and people were talking more about the size of their dicks than football.
Another good example are the Major League Baseball message boards of whatever team has a Korean player. In the years when Chan Ho Park was performing well in Los Angeles, half of the posts in the Dodgers message boards were about him and most of them didn't discuss any baseball but were merely praising the Korean pitcher's talent (back then he was good), often in broken English.
The same thing happened when Chan Ho Park signed with Texas for an absurd amount of money. The Rangers message boards were infested with Koreans and their usual posts about Park and Korean Pride. By this time though, he wasn't performing well at all (that was probably one of the worst free agent contracts ever) and this attitude by Korean trolls of course attracted the worst reactions from people and, soon enough, nasty comments involving nationalities and races were more predominant than baseball discussions.
These insults would never take place in the real world or if the authors had to identify themselves. Most of the insulting comments are made by cowards anyway and cowards are not known to do anything that may harm them physically (like risking their faces to the violent encounter with an incoming fist).
So, what if everybody in the Internet had to identify themselves?
No, I'm not saying that you should supply your SSN, address, age, gender and cock size whenever you want to access porn or read the news in the Internet. No identification needed on downloads, only uploads. If you want to access content, you can do it anonymously, but if you want to create content you have to identify yourself.
In my solution, everybody would get an IIN (Internet Identification Number) and this would be linked to whatever governmental agency it is that keeps information from people in any given country. This number would not be available for everybody but then again, the authorities would have an easy way to track people if any virtual crime happened in the Internet.
The IIN would be necessary in any event where the netizen wants to contribute something to the Internet. Any website like MySpace, Facebook, Blogger and Orkut would require one. Anytime you wanted to post a comment on a blog you would need one. Anytime you wanted to create an user on a message board you would need one. Anytime you wanted to create an email address you would need one.
I believe that with this IIN in mind, assholes around the world would have to think twice before contributing something harmful or stupid. Although a lot less fun, the Internet be a lot safer place for everybody.
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