• Informatization Policy
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• v.29 no.3
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• pp.48-60
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• 2022

This research analyzes the potential reform of Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act through the new institutionalist approach. The immunity provision of the Section 230, which has developed the U.S. Internet content regulation regime and protected big tech firms, is facing a significant change today. The chambers of Congress have attempted to limit the immunity shield for platforms with bipartisanship. As a result of analysis through the perspective of historical institutionalism, a critical change could come from external events including fake news controversies and data privacy scandals, as well as endogenous factors such as conflicts among actors. The discussion deals with the possible direction of Internet content regulation reforms in Korea.

• Journal of the Korea Society of Computer and Information
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• v.10 no.1 s.33
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• pp.189-199
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• 2005

Technology has many potential uses and changes by social context surrounding it. Therefore political implications are reflected in the internal logical system of articraft, technology. This explanation is ale to apply to the regulation technology of Internet. The empowerment of information is changeable according as which regulation technology is adopted. This paper explores the structure, principle and its social implication of regulation technology of Internet, which coincides with user empowerment of information as a case of ICRS(Internet Content Rating System).

• Journal of Science and Technology Studies
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• v.4 no.1 s.7
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• pp.83-110
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• 2004

This article examines the legislation process of internet contents regulation through three phases from a policy network point of view. In the first phase, heated debates were initiated during the public hearings after the Ministry of Information & Communications announced its plan to introduce the internet contents grading system During the second phase, bills were submitted to the Standing Committee of the National Assembly, where the bills were deliberated, passed, and promulgated. In the third phase, issues on enforcement ordinance were resolved as the degree of conflict was mitigated. Policy network during the first phase started in a conflicting and distributed form, but has evolved into a conflicting and centralized form. The appropriate closure of the debate on the internet contents regulation can be explained by the structure of governmental departments, the character of new technology, and the mobilization of general public.

• Informatization Policy
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• v.17 no.1
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• pp.3-22
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• 2010

This study reviewed and ascertained policy researches relating to the Internet in the field of communication. With using a meta-analysis, this study attempts to classify 44 academic papers from 2000 to 2009 by research theme, methodology, theoretic rationale, related sub-theme, and targeted service and area. It is found that the themes of preceding researches examined herein were limited to the 4th domain in Developmental Model of Media Research. Such researches mainly relied on exploratory studies and only a few of them addressed theoretic rationales. Also, most of Internet regulation discussions focused on content regulation and general internet service. Lastly, researchers discussed laws having bearing on the Internet and social-cultural issues of the Internet.

• Journal of Internet Computing and Services
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• v.16 no.4
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• pp.121-130
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• 2015

Technology based start-up is actively encouraged for job creation and economic performance in Korea. The Korean government has implemented a variety of policy for regulatory improvement to vitalize technology based start-up. In order to maximize the effectiveness of the policy for regulatory improvement should be actively reflect the opinions of policy beneficiaries. In this study, The importance of "The progress plan for regulation improvement about vitalization of start-up(25 contents)" published by the government was analyzed using AHP method. The object of study is the beneficiary of the policy(CEO of ICT sector). Analysis showed that the 25 contents were classified into four(1 - expectation of effect, 2 - urgency of system enforcement, 3 - complement of deficiencies, 4 - after careful consideration). This study has a academic significance to quantitative analysis about importance of policy for regulatory improvement. Also, It can be utilized when policy making and practice about technology based start-up.

• Informatization Policy
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• v.30 no.2
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• pp.3-21
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• 2023

The recent Internet environment demands a new approach to Internet content regulation. The need for regulation on the Internet has been recognized due to the rise of digital sex crimes, illegal information such as drugs and suicide, fake news, hate speech, false consumer reviews, and harmful content for young people. This article attempts to analyze the legislative, judicial, and administrative aspects of Internet content regulation in Korea. It covers the current status and characteristics of the Internet content regulation law, the judicial judgment on KCSC's communications deliberation and regulation, and the process and characteristics of KCSC's communications deliberation. Problems in Korea's communications deliberation system were addressed through legislative, judicial, and administrative approaches. This article concludes with policy suggestions for improving Internet content regulation in Korea.

• Electronics and Telecommunications Trends
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• v.21 no.5 s.101
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• pp.185-195
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• 2006

미국에서는 감청을 수행하는 데 있어 통신기술의 발달에 대응하기 위하여, 1994년 10월에 통신사업자의 감청 수행을 위한 장비설치의무를 핵심 내용으로 하는 CALEA를 제정하였다. 그 이후, 인터넷전화 등의 IP 서비스가 발달함에 따라 CALEA의 적용범위확대에 대한 이슈가 제기되기 시작하였다. 이에 대하여 FCC는 2005년 9월, CALEA를 설비기반 광대역 인터넷 접속서비스 제공업자와 상호연동 VoIP 서비스 제공업자에게 적용한다는 내용을 담은 order를 발표하였다. 이를 시행하기 위해서는 비용보전, 유예기간의 준수 등 여러 가지 이슈들이 해결되어야 하는데, 이를 위하여 FCC는 2006년 5월에 두번째 order를 발표하였다. 이 order에서는 위 두 종류의 사업자에게 CALEA를 적용하기 위해 해결되어야 할 주요 이슈들에 대한 검토 결과 등을 다루고 있다. 본 문서에서는 FCC order를 중심으로 미국의 IP 서비스 감청 규제 동향을 분석한다.

• 정보화사회
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• s.96
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• pp.44-48
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• 1995

정보윤리위원회는 지난 9월 29일 여의도 전경련회관 대회의실에서 인터넷 불건전정보 방지 세미나를 가졌다. 정보통신부가 주관하고, 조선일보사와 전자신문사가 후원한 이번 세미나의 발표주제와 토론회 내용을 요약한다.

• Korean journal of communication and information
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• v.58
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• pp.106-129
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• 2012

Social Network Service(SNS), which are an emerging form of political architecture, have been a political means to promote civic engagement and shape pubic opinions on social issues. Along with the influence of SNSs, the governmental control on the dissemination of information over SNSs has increased more and more. It would be ideal if the autonomous governance regulates SNSs which facilitate the networks of the dispersed people. It is the fact, though, that compulsory regulations under which the government controls impose policy and legal restrictions on political expressions. The current study addresses expressive and participatory nature embedded in technological characteristics of SNSs and discusses the problems of content regulations of political expression over SNSs. First of all, it is analyzed that light touch regulation or light touch monitoring should be applied to regulating content on SNSs, particularly political expressions. Constitutional Court proclaimed that legal restrictions on the Internet could infringe basic rights of the people and thus under unambiguous standards, the Doctrine of Clear and Present Danger should be applied to its content. Second, it is found that clarifying the definition of illegality in the application of legal restrictions is necessary to minimize the excessive misleading. Third, it is required that Korea Communications Standards Commission under the government control needs to change in determining the scope of illegal information. In a domestic level, there needs to be safeguards for the protection of the self-regulatory organization such as KISO to guarantee voluntary and autonomous regulatory practices.

• Journal of Internet Computing and Services
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• v.17 no.4
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• pp.145-159
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• 2016

This study points out the problems of absence of the legislation for standard regulation on Video on Demand(VoD) advertisement which grows so fast lately, for this it recommends making legal references, which have the definition of non-linear broadcasting & VoD advertisement and VoD advertisement standard regulation in the merged Broadcasting Act, and adopting co-regulation system. Pay TV operators providing VoD service have the opportunities to make money as subscribers uses it increasingly. In case of linear service, the Broadcasting Act regulates the advertisement strictly, but not the VoD ads. The reason why is that Korean legislation including the Broadcasting Act does not have legal reference to regulate it, instead of that, it rely on the self-regulation system which is operated by pay-tv players who provide the VoD ads. So, there is the limitation to protect the minors such as children and youth from the harmful VoD ads, to be invulnerable for advertisers to influence to advertising agents, and to ensure the regulatory effectiveness under player-centric self-regulatory regime. In this context, this study analyses the how to regulate VoD ads standard with a three-pronged approach. First, it analyses the VoD ads regulation system in overseas countries, UK, Canada, EU and Ireland. Each country has the legal reference to regulate it in the Broadcasting Act or lower statures and adopts the co-regulatory regime the NRA and the 3rd entity operate together. Second, it reviews the objectives and scope of VoD ads standard. This study recommends that the objective of it is users protection and the scope of it is standard regulation not commercial practice. Third, this study researches how to legislate for regulation of VoD ads standard. Considering VoD service's characteristics(non-linear service) and legal position of Ads agency(i.e. pay tv operators), it suggest that legal reference will be in the integrated Broadcasting bill, which is the general law, not individual. If it is available to regulate VoD ads standard with co-regulatory regime, it expects the enhancement of user protection from the harmful VoD ads and make up sustainability of the pay-tv players' self-regulation.