Naver will temporarily abolish comments on sports news.

Naver said today (7th) that it will temporarily stop commenting on sports news through its blog announcement.

"Comments steadily generated that defame and defame some players as targets," said Naver. "We strengthened our monitoring and technology, but recently judged that the level of malicious comments and the pain of the wounded players was overlooked." Explained.

In the meantime, Naver announced that it would first stop commenting on sports news and prepare separate measures for other areas such as videos.

The live broadcast of the sports game'Live Talk' is maintained, and'AI Clean Bot 2.0' is applied to filter out malicious content such as swear words.

AI Cleanbot 2.0 is also introduced in'Naver TV' where video creators produce content.

Channel operators have the right to turn the comment area off or on.

Naver emphasized that sports news comments were not abolished at all.

The company said, "Currently, we are developing a technology that automatically analyzes the types of comments that are frequently found in sports services to control the exposure of malicious comments." "

Naver abolished the entertainment article comment service in February of this year.

Recently, as it became known that female volleyball 故 Yu Yu-min was extremely stressed by malicious comments, there was a voice in the sports world that the sports news comments should be abolished.

On October 4, IOC player Yoo Seung-min, a former ping-pong player, asked the National Assembly to make a bill prohibiting the portal sports news comment service. 

(Photo = Naver, Yonhap News)