First Draft Confirmation

1. What is my thesis?

Network real-name system should not be revived.

2. What types of source am I using to defend my thesis? 

I am using various research paper arguing both sides, statistics, and fine articles.

3. Are my arguments mostly based on evidence, logic or emotion?

My argument has very logical evidences based on Korean constitution. I can use many laws in Korean constitution to support my thesis statement. I guess it will be hard to go against these constitutional evidences. However, I am worrying that I didn't research anything related to emotion but I believe I can make may classical argument well with my logical evidences. 

Facebook, Twitter, and Youtube, can you guess any common things among these three website? It seems difficult to find but if you try to make a ID in these websites you find easily that they are adopting anonymity system. According to an article, The Country of Smartphone is Now Seeking for a New Way to Deal With Network Real-Name System, it said "It is a trend that huge websites like Facebook, Twitter and Youtube are adopting anonymity system instead of network real-name system. This means "Anonymity" in websites has become popular among users." The main reason these websites use the anonymity system is they are scared about leaking users' personal information.  In 2009, after exerting network real-name system, Korea was damaged seriously by leakage of personal information. According to an article,  35million Cyworld, Nate usuers' information hacked, approximately 35 million users' personal information that had been stored on the website was leaked. The damage was really huge because the real-name system made the website store personal information easily. The information was stored automatically to the website. Kim Eul Dong, a member of National Assembly, criticized "President Lee Myung Bak's personal information has been leaked and other members of National Assembly's personal information including mine have been revealed too." Also, Jeon Hye Suk, a member of National Assembly, blamed "We introduced this system to prevent malicious comments on the cyber place,however, due to this system, all public's personal information is to be leaked. We have to think about abolishing it." To the two women, the name naming system was a shortcut sending their personal information to those who they didn't know. Internet real-name system can be a good shortcut to hackers who want to use others' personal information in malicious ways. We have to protect users' information from this "shortcut".  Do you want to send your personal identification including your family's identification to the unknown overseas or do you want to keep your identification with your "fake" name? 

Dcinside, a famous Korean portal site, did a poll against 5027 internet users. The poll's question was this : Do you agree that network real-name system can reduce malicious comments on cyber place? Surprisingly, around 64 percent(3217 people) of the users said "no" while less than half of the users expected this system had effects. The expectation of those of 64 percent became true. According to a statistic, Analysis of Network Real-Name System's Effect in 2008, done by Korea Broadcasting and Communication Commission, from Daum Agora, malicious comments on board was 8.3 percent in 2007. However, the percent of the comments increased to 14.1 in 2008. Also, percent of malicious comments on Moneyside has been increased from 8.2 in 2007 to 12.2 in  2008. Moreover, the ratio of malicious comments on DCinside message board has been increased too, from 9.1 in 2007 to 14.3 in 2008.  Seo Gab Won, a member of Culture, Sports, Tourism, and Broadcasting and Communication Commission, argued that "Regulations like name naming system which press the freedom of expression now prove themselves to be hard to reduce malicious comments on the cyber place. This system rather reduce free political and social communication forum." Like his saying, the network real-name system has no efficiency on reducing malicious comments at all.

Lastly, the internet real-name system has constitutional problem that this can violate both users' and internet press's freedom of expression. On August 23, 2012, the Constitutional Court of Korea decided that the real-name system done on various portal sites in Korea is unconstitutional, mentioning the provisions of violation on freedom of expression. 

The Constitutional Court said,

The system does not seem to have been beneficial to the public. Despite the enforcement of the system, the number of illegal or malicious postings online has not decreased. Instead, users moved to foreign Websites and the system became discriminatory against domestic operators. It also prevented foreigners who didn’t have a resident registration number here from expressing their opinions online.

 A research paper, Constitutional Research on Real-Name System, done by Hanyang university researchers, proved the violation on the freedom of expression assaying each laws related to the real-name system, particularly Public Election Act. Here's some part of the Act:

Public Election Act, the 82 number 6(In 2004)
   1)If the internet-users want to update their comments a bout election on websites or cyber bulletin boards, they have to authenticate their identification, including their real name and registration number.
   2)This act might be applied to websites that candidates make but since in this case it's just informal form one can avoid authenticating process.
   3,4)The Ministry of Government Administration and people selected according to Home Affairs and the use and protection of credit information act will authenticate the internet-users' identification.  
 5) If the internet-users obey this act, their comments on websites will be eliminated and they will no longer update their ideas on the internet websites." 

Public Election Act, the 261 number 1(In 2004)
  "Unless the internet press take any step, the press will be punished with 10 million won penalty."

With these laws, people could no longer express their political ideas freely. This means that free political and social communication forum can be reduced due to this system. What if the freedom of political expression of users are violated by this system?  As I mentioned on narration, Iranian's twitter revolution using their anonymity could have not existed. Also, huge portal sites like Facebook, Twitter, and Youtube could have not been popularized. Also, with these laws, focusing on Public Election Act, the 261 number 1, internet press can be damaged. Press is basically run by various ideas of public. Anonymity can make public's idea various enough. With anonymity, they can blame candidates, politicians or other celebrities but without this, they cannot do anything. Thus, the real-name system can block communication between press and public so that the freedom of press's expression also be pressed too. 

Whether we view the naming system in the aspects of social protection or constitutional infraction, one thing becomes explicitly true : We have to put our hands away from the "silly" naming system!