Base21, Jinbonet's website for progressive news in English from South Korea, says: "Lots of civil society entities including press and human rights organizations are showing strong and united resistance against the recently passed Internet Real Name Law as We refuse to comply becomes their mantra. The Internet Real Name Law, which was passed at the plenary session of Parliament on March 9, 2004, requires Internet media and press websites to verify all names and identification numbers of authors who post messages on bulletin boards or chat rooms regarding elections... [The] Internet Real Name Law can [also] be applied to personal websites which contain materials concerning political matters as well as the websites of civil society organizations... Lee Hoon, Vice-President of [the] Association of Internet Newspapers, stressed they would refuse to obey the Internet Real Name Law. Additionally, they would request an immediate repeal of the law...
"159 organizations including human rights, academic and press organizations as well as civil society organizations have refused to obey the Internet real name law. Portal websites such as Media Daum are also participating in the disobedience declaration.... Furthermore, a petition [asserting] the law's unconstitutionality has been filed with the constitutional court requesting a review. Since it is prior censorship which is prohibited by the constitution, and it also restricts freedom of expression of the public regarding political matters, it is deemed [by the petitioners as] unconstitutional..."