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South Korean Man Given Suspended Sentence For Retweeting NK Propaganda
tukang writes "Park Jung-geun, 24, of South Korea has been given a 10 month suspended prison sentence for violating the country's National Security Law, which prohibits 'praising, encouraging or propagandizing' North Korea, by retweeting over 100 North Korean propaganda posts."
If people keep retweeting that kind of propaganda it might infect South Korea with totalitarianism and restrictions on things like speech.
i would bet if you flipped this backwards the guy himself would have been hung
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Man breaks local law and gets punished for it, film at 11. Why is this an issue? In Thailand you get thrown in jail for simply disrespecting the king, in Singapore you'll get hung (or at least caned) for carrying the smallest amount of illegal drugs. the world is not completely homogenous (at least not yet).
"I bless every day that I continue to live, for every day is pure profit."
Hanging is so 1800's. The preferred method of execution in North Korea is live mortar shell these days:
http://www.bignewsnetwork.com/index.php/sid/210323137/scat/b8de8e630faf3631/ht/North-Korean-minister-killed-by-mortar-shell-for-drinking-in-mourning-period
Schroedinger's Brexit: The UK is both in and out of the EU at the same time!
I'm genuinely curious. What would happen in the US if I tweet messages praising Al-Qaeda and retweeted their propaganda and warnings about terrorism?
Has anyone taken a look at some of the retweets this guy is responsible for?
'Best Korea: who has more Seoul? We do!'
'Don't shoot! Don't shoot, I'm typing as fast'
'KJU: Highest score Galaga'
'and Asteroids'
'KJU: The REAL King of Kong'
'Kim Jung-un 12"'
'Kim Jung-un retains championship belt for Real Korea Ultimate Fighting'
This makes it perfectly ok, then!
South Korea and North Korea and technically still at war. He is lucky that he isn't tried as a spy.
If you can be punished for saying the wrong thing on social media, then we should consider social media as a liability. Only post things that the court of law would deem appropriate.
It's like big brother gave you a terminal to type into. Whatever you say can and will be used against you.
You would need to pack your belongings and immediately retweet to a safer location like Iwan.
My God can beat up your God. Just kidding...don't take offense. I know there's no God.
If we all just ignore North Korea, maybe they will go away.
Here is his twitter feed. Much to nobody's surprise, it's in Korean.
My perception was always that SK was some sort of bastion of freedom and laissez-faire. Boy was that an uninformed understanding of things. Best of luck to that man and his family.
Compared to NK, they're a paradise of freedom. Compared to everyone else, not so much. They tend to have a much more controlling government and they definitely have some serious government-corporation cooperation going on there, in the mold of Japan. It's not as draconian a place as Singapore or anything, but it is not one of those countries that you assume you have the right to say whatever you want about anyone.
Dear South Korean government, The stupid need a voice too. How can people learn how stupid they are if they are not allowed to display their stupidity. Thanks, Concerned Citizen of the World
The thing is North Korea and South Korea are technically at war. The Korean war has never ended, they only agreed to a ceasefire. Doing anything to promote or aid another country that your country is at war with is a serious crime in every country in the world. In this case however it sounds like the reaction is totally overblown as retweeting their dumb tweets isn't helping North Korea in any way.
Instead of bothering with punishment in SK, why not just help him emigrate to NK? Maybe after he's lived there, he'll realize what a crap hole it is and try to help the place go Gangnam Style.
The whores get mad when the sluts give it away for free.
the only defense the powerless have against the powerful is anonymity
that is why the powerful want to destroy the anonymous internet
if the guy had hadn't associated his real name with his account then used twitter through tor or an out of country vpn he would still have his freedom
lesson learned, if you do anything that might possibly get the attention of those with the power to harm you don't let them know it was you who did it
i would bet if you flipped this backwards the guy himself would have been hung
That's true. It is also irrelevant. The measure of a free society is not in the policies of possibly the worst society in the world. It is measured in how well it lives up to the ideals of freedom.
When information is power, privacy is freedom.
You ain't kidding about the overreach of corporations in SK. It's as close to a real-life Omni Consumer Products as it's going to get.
In Korea, it's possible to leave from your Samsung-constructed apartment complex using the Samsung-constructed elevator, and get into your Samsung-built car to drive to a Samsung-owned eatery before going to work in a Samsung subsidiary.
There are a huge number of yeast infections in this county. Probably because we're downriver from the bread factory.
No, it's not.
There may be some people in the country who believe in it, just like there are people in N. America that believe equally wacky stuff.
In Canada, there were warnings of people using the superstitions of Chinese immigrants to scam them for money (insisting they were followed by a bad spirit, charging them to "cleanse" personal items, and stealing said items).
This guy gets a suspended sentence for re-tweeting North Korean propaganda.
Yet PSY gets nothing for unleashing Gangam Style.
Worst Korea is seriously fucked up.
Calling someone a "hater" only means you can not rationally rebut their argument.
Compared to NK, even 1970s China was a paradise of freedom. That's not a joke but something I've heard from some Koreans that live in China that stare across the border in horror. When asked what should be done to NK one, who may or may not have living relatives over there (impossible to get a message to them if they are alive) said "wait until the wind is blowing the right way then nuke".
Compared to NK, even 1970s China was a paradise of freedom. That's not a joke but something I've heard from some Koreans that live in China that stare across the border in horror. When asked what should be done to NK one, who may or may not have living relatives over there (impossible to get a message to them if they are alive) said "wait until the wind is blowing the right way then nuke".
In cold, economic terms, nuking may be the cheapest solution, if you remove the human element. As I understand it, when East Germany rejoined West Germany, getting the former Soviet client state up to modern standards was a massive drain on the economy. What's more, East Germany was a relatively bright economic light in the soviet sphere. In order to integrate North Korea with the south, not only would pretty much everything need to be replaced, but almost everyone would need retraining and updated education. I doubt that South Korea would want to do that without asking for international financial aid.
Compared to NK, they're a paradise of freedom.
Talk about setting the bar low.
To have a right to do a thing is not at all the same as to be right in doing it