Yoo: Web portals need to take ‘responsibility’

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Yoo: Web portals need to take ‘responsibility’

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Yoo Young-hwan

The government will force Web portals to show social responsibility and will try to lower cell phone fees by allowing bundled services, Vice Information Minister Yoo Young-hwan said yesterday.
At a meeting with reporters in Seoul, Yoo said Internet portals were able to flourish because there were no laws restricting their business.
“But now, their influence in terms of the media and content industry is enormous and they must take on the social responsibility that meets that level,” he said.
Yoo defined “social responsibility” to include various problems on the Internet, such as defamation and lack of restrictions on pornography.
He said the government will propose laws and try to pass them through the National Assembly this year.
Regarding recent consumer demand that fees for mobile phone services be lowered, Yoo said the government can’t tell businesses to lower fees.
“However, by allowing telecom services to be sold in bundles beginning in July, we are trying to help relieve the burden of consumers,” he said.
Yoo was referring to a telecom policy roadmap that the government announced last March.


By Wohn Dong-hee Staff Writer [wohn@joongang.co.kr]
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