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South Korean Man Given Suspended Sentence For Retweeting NK Propaganda

Posted by Unknown on from the don't-talk-about-it dept.

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."

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  1. Thank goodness... by hawks5999 · · Score: 5, Funny

    If people keep retweeting that kind of propaganda it might infect South Korea with totalitarianism and restrictions on things like speech.

  2. I'm curious... by ctk76 · · Score: 5, Interesting

    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?