Comments on: Korea: Threatening Books and Their Popularity http://globalvoicesonline.org/2008/08/07/korea-threatening-books-and-their-popularity/ The world is talking. Are you listening? Thu, 03 Dec 2009 16:29:18 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: How Not To Promote A Book . . . | The Marmot's Hole http://globalvoicesonline.org/2008/08/07/korea-threatening-books-and-their-popularity/comment-page-1/#comment-1497900 How Not To Promote A Book . . . | The Marmot's Hole Fri, 08 Aug 2008 04:18:26 +0000 http://globalvoicesonline.org/?p=47941#comment-1497900 [...] Hye-jin of Globalvoicesonline.org has an interesting report on an attempt at censoring books that seems to have backfired: the Ministry of National Defense [...] [...] Hye-jin of Globalvoicesonline.org has an interesting report on an attempt at censoring books that seems to have backfired: the Ministry of National Defense [...]

]]> By: Jesse Owen http://globalvoicesonline.org/2008/08/07/korea-threatening-books-and-their-popularity/comment-page-1/#comment-1497662 Jesse Owen Thu, 07 Aug 2008 16:28:48 +0000 http://globalvoicesonline.org/?p=47941#comment-1497662 Wow, that is great! I think governments will never learn that banning art just makes it more popular! Wow, that is great! I think governments will never learn that banning art just makes it more popular!

]]> By: JOHN SCOTT RIDGWAY http://globalvoicesonline.org/2008/08/07/korea-threatening-books-and-their-popularity/comment-page-1/#comment-1497660 JOHN SCOTT RIDGWAY Thu, 07 Aug 2008 16:25:48 +0000 http://globalvoicesonline.org/?p=47941#comment-1497660 Hey, all praise to the Koreans... but if they want everyone to love america so much, they should understand that the united states was put together based on a few principles, like FREEDOM OF SPEECH. I also am very disappointed that american novelists are not included, because all four of my books deserve a place. In fact, I am going to boycott all toothpicks from South Korea until I am informed that I, too, have been placed on that damn list!!! Hey, I write about military intelligence based on a degree and extensive interviews with veterens and spies... and THOUGH I LOVE MY COUNTRY and all that, everyone can grow from criticism. I had the same editor once for fifteen years, and since we were sleeping together I couldn't throw a fit when she said I was wrong about something. I had to think about it, discuss it like an adult, and take the best course, whether it was the one I originally thought was right or not. When countries begin to distrust their soldiers like this, something else is lost... You have to wonder if they are just worried that it will mess with the brain washing that frequently destroys armies and individualism as well; the norm of the military is to make everything black and white, but this is a new world with the net, and even soldiers are waking up to the fact that they have a fundamental right to thinki for themselves. Hey, all praise to the Koreans… but if they want everyone to love america so much, they should understand that the united states was put together based on a few principles, like FREEDOM OF SPEECH. I also am very disappointed that american novelists are not included, because all four of my books deserve a place. In fact, I am going to boycott all toothpicks from South Korea until I am informed that I, too, have been placed on that damn list!!! Hey, I write about military intelligence based on a degree and extensive interviews with veterens and spies… and THOUGH I LOVE MY COUNTRY and all that, everyone can grow from criticism. I had the same editor once for fifteen years, and since we were sleeping together I couldn’t throw a fit when she said I was wrong about something. I had to think about it, discuss it like an adult, and take the best course, whether it was the one I originally thought was right or not.

When countries begin to distrust their soldiers like this, something else is lost… You have to wonder if they are just worried that it will mess with the brain washing that frequently destroys armies and individualism as well; the norm of the military is to make everything black and white, but this is a new world with the net, and even soldiers are waking up to the fact that they have a fundamental right to thinki for themselves.

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