ATEK Pushing for Something I Agree With (For a Change)

In their latest (and increasingly better written*) press release ATEK calls for NHN, parent company of Korean Internet Portal Naver.com to remove racist and, frankly defamatory content from the Internet "Cafe" of the Anti English Spectrum group.

A letter writing campaign has been started by Andrea Vandom, an International Relations PhD. candidate who has not only sent letters to NHN's Korean and American offices, but has enlisted the aid of Korean born, Irvine, CA. Mayor Kang Suk Hee.

Her correspondences with NHN have spelt out how content on the cafe are in breach of Naver's own Terms and Conditions, not to mention International agreements that Korea is a signatory to as well Korean law itself.

Gusts of Popular Feeling can fill you in More on Anti-English Spectrum's past activities here, as well as a look at the messages they've been spreading can be found here, and a closer look at their campaign to link foreign English teachers to AIDS can be found here.

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*On the topic of ATEKs press releases - If you are going to outline something about sending information to someone it might be an idea to include HOW YOU CAN DO IT. This is a press release and I am a lazy mutha f*cker, give me NHN's address and I'm more likely to join the cause.

Secondly What's p with sending a second email saying, "Oh sorry, change the title of the Press release so i actually says what we meant it to say the first time...?

Keep trying.

Comments

[Chris in South Korea]

Definitely an effort worth supporting - and yes, ATEK's press releases need to include the sort of 'what you can do' sort of information... I presume someone knows it - otherwise the letters never got there in the first place?

[kushibo]

As I stated here, I think the way they're going about doing this is backwards. Without first getting a group like the NHRCK to designate them as a hate group or something, then ATEK is nothing more than one group complaining about another group who says bad things about them and trying to limit their free speech.

Furthermore, by going after their website first, this also give AES the opportunity (or requirement) to take down all their questionable stuff, which then makes it harder to get AES listed as a hate group.

AES's power, if it really has any, is in its influence with the lazy journalists and legislators. Getting them officially discredited as a hate group should have been priority 1.

I dare say AES might actually get stronger because of this.

[Stafford]

@Kushibo
I agree. We are forced to tolerate countless KKK websites because of free speech - ignoring them works better than drawing attention to them by complaining.
YES! We need to be going after Lawmakers like Lee Ju Young et al who are making clearly defamatory statements about all E2 visa holders, and are not held accountable because of their position and what seems to be an immunity to fact.

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