(Editorial) Faceless Dagger
Entertainers who have every single detail of their personal lives opened and become social characters are indiscriminately treated with bad replies in cyberspace. Singer You Nee killed herself because of depression after going through tough times handling bad comments about her while she was alive. After her death, frightening messages continue. Bad comments are beyond the limits of simple swear words and personal attacks, and become an attack on someone’s life. Against the deceased, people say, “Good that you died.” That kills someone twice and that is the current state of cyberspace.
A more serious problem is going beyond celebrities and harassing the lives of the general populace. According to the Korean Internet Safety Commission, consultations by sufferers of bad comments numbered 278 in 2001 and now it tremendously rose up to 4,751 in 2006. Within a few years the new Internet culture has become corrupted, making a rough estimate. Especially, normal people are unarmed against bad comments that might be coming from friends or acquaintances. Accordingly, ordinary people find terrible comments are too much to take, compared to entertainers.
Among teenagers, bad comments are used as a way of creating a loser. Teenagers now make anti-clubs called "The Club to Hate ○○" on a popular portal site. It has gotten to be "on-line school violence." Teenagers who have sensitive feelings will never pull through the pain.
Bad comments attacking a person are a violation of human rights. They cannot be defended by any reason and they are a public enemy of cyberspace. Bad comments are just ‘excrement of senses,’ spitting out of one’s head in hiding. However, it becomes a ‘faceless dagger’ when it is in cyberspace.
Certainly, it is necessary to judicially prosecute bad comments, but there are restrictions within the law. Some portal sites and press sites plan to apply an Internet real-name system starting from this July. However, most importantly, netizens need to be awakened and creating a healthy Internet culture is important.
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 / 입력시간: 2007. 01.24. 08:02
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