{"id":1539721,"date":"2025-06-03T23:15:00","date_gmt":"2025-06-04T03:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/?p=1539721"},"modified":"2025-06-03T23:15:00","modified_gmt":"2025-06-04T03:15:00","slug":"is-this-stunning-censorship-a-glimpse-into-our-own-future","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/is-this-stunning-censorship-a-glimpse-into-our-own-future\/1539721\/","title":{"rendered":"Is This Stunning Censorship A Glimpse Into Our Own Future?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Is This Stunning Censorship A Glimpse Into Our Own Future?<\/span><\/p>\n

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Authored by Steve Watson via Modernity.news,<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

The BBC has\u00a0reported<\/a>\u00a0on smartphones smuggled out of North Korea that are setup to spy on citizens and prevent them from using language that is not authorised by the Communist state.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Instead of simply not allowing North Korean people to have such devices, the regime there has decided to manufacture and distribute phones as a tool for further controlling the population amid fears that freedom, in the form of South Korean culture, is encroaching.<\/p>\n

The BBC reporter demonstrates how the phone edits words and phrases that are are not acceptable to the North Korean government, and replaces them with language they have sanctioned.<\/p>\n

NEW: The BBC has obtained a phone that was smuggled out of North Korea that edits words North Koreans aren’t supposed to use.<\/p>\n

Wild.<\/p>\n

North Korea has now adopted smartphones to indoctrinate its citizens.<\/p>\n

If a user tries typing a blocked word, the phone will edit it to a word\u2026 pic.twitter.com\/InvnIBZPsf<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2014 Collin Rugg (@CollinRugg) May 31, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n

In one example, the reporter types in a South Korean slang word for \u201cboyfriend\u201d and the phone changes it to \u201ccomrade.\u201d<\/p>\n

A second example shows the reporter typing in \u2018South Korea\u2019 and the phone automatically changing it to \u201cPuppet State.\u201d<\/p>\n

The phone also covertly takes a screenshot every five minutes, stores the images in a secret folder which the user cannot access, but North Korean authorities can scour through should they wish to do so.<\/p>\n

The report also notes that the North Korean Communists have deployed \u201cyouth crackdown squads\u201d to patrol the streets listening out for people using South Korean slang or styles of language.<\/p>\n

Wild stuff.<\/p>\n

\u201cSmartphones are now part and parcel of the way North Korea tries to indoctrinate people,\u201d Martyn Williams, a senior fellow at the Washington DC-based Stimson Center, and an expert in North Korean\u00a0technology and information, told the BBC.<\/p>\n

Williams further noted that North Korea is now \u201cstarting to gain the upper hand\u201d in the information war.<\/p>\n

Some online pointed out that its ironic that the state funded BBC filed this report, given that people in the UK are being imprisoned over social media posts.<\/p>\n

Yeah, the BBC reporting on this is “rich.”<\/p>\n

This is where the UK is headed.<\/p>\n

\u2014 Collin Rugg (@CollinRugg) May 31, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n

Others noted this may be where our own countries are heading, or essentially already are.<\/p>\n

This sounds like America during COVID<\/p>\n

\u2014 Being Libertarian (@beinlibertarian) May 31, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n

Not surprised! Canada and Britain will do the same thing.<\/p>\n

\u2014 Gunther Eagleman\u2122 (@GuntherEagleman) May 31, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n

Us if Kamala had won<\/p>\n

\u2014 Washingtons ghost (@washghost1) May 31, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n

The U.K. government under Chairman Starmer will see this and get ideas.<\/p>\n

\u2014 Comic Boss One \u2764\ufe0f\ud83c\uddfa\ud83c\uddf8 (@comic_boss) June 1, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n

Sounds like a Democrats dream world.<\/p>\n

\u2014 E Bravo (@ebravo_x) May 31, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n

“If a user tries typing a blocked word, the phone will edit it to a word that is acceptable to the North Korean government.”<\/p>\n

Reminds me of Bluesky and Twitter pre Elon.<\/p>\n

\u2014 minimalist1969 (@minimalist2021) May 31, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n

How long before the BBC mandates a UK phone that does exactly the same thing?<\/p>\n

\u2014 Rational Posts\u2122 (@rationalposts) May 31, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n

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Tyler Durden<\/a><\/span>
\nTue, 06\/03\/2025 – 19:15<\/span><\/p>\n

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