I consider lack of digital freedom quite oppressive, especially given "software eating the world" trend. The fact that they even can tell the age of person playing games during night time in the first place sounds quite sketchy to me (I guess I'm supposed to tie my gaming account to my real id?).
In Korea you do. In part because of multiple things such as a desire to prevent defamation, which is a big deal in Korea because people take their reputation very seriously and bullying is a big problem as a result, having notably lead to multiple high profile suicides. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_Korean_cyber_defamation_...
The laws on libel and slander are notorious for being very alien to westerners. In particular saying something true but bad about someone isn't typically libel in other countries, but in Korea it is: true or false, you shouldn't speak ill of people.
It's a very different society where very different tradeoffs have been made.
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It depends on what you consider oppressive. In terms of international freedom indices, South Korea is about as free as the United States of America (https://freedomhouse.org/countries/freedom-world/scores or https://rsf.org/en/index) or not far from it (https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/freedom-i...)
Of course this doesn't say much if you don't consider the USA to be a very free country but I'd reckon most of the world still does.
I consider lack of digital freedom quite oppressive, especially given "software eating the world" trend. The fact that they even can tell the age of person playing games during night time in the first place sounds quite sketchy to me (I guess I'm supposed to tie my gaming account to my real id?).
In Korea you do. In part because of multiple things such as a desire to prevent defamation, which is a big deal in Korea because people take their reputation very seriously and bullying is a big problem as a result, having notably lead to multiple high profile suicides. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_Korean_cyber_defamation_...
The laws on libel and slander are notorious for being very alien to westerners. In particular saying something true but bad about someone isn't typically libel in other countries, but in Korea it is: true or false, you shouldn't speak ill of people.
It's a very different society where very different tradeoffs have been made.
I wonder how SK ranked high despite they do much internet censorship https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_censorship_in_South_K...
It's not a matter of personal opinion. Many reputable sources place US in a pretty bad place compared to all other developed countries.
In terms of freedom specifically?
cool... My score(freedom house) is 27, same as Kyrgyzstan so, yayyy