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WIRED:LAST WEEK I wrote about what I’d seen in Thailand, a Far East country that has just beginning to see widespread broadband internet adoption, but which risks losing its own internet industry because of laws that make ISPs and web hosts liable for everything their own users or customers do online, writes DANNY O’BRIEN

You would think they would be less careless in South Korea, which has a global reputation as one of the most advanced internet societies in the world.