South Korean convicted for tweeting Pyongyang propaganda A simple Twitter-based lampoon almost backfired for one South Korean user this week, after a Seoul court found him guilty of breaking the country’s strict national security law by retweeting North Korean propaganda. Suwon District Court handed 24-year-old Park Jeong-geun a 10-month suspended prison sentence after ruling he had …
In South Korea, yes.
I am bored of stupid people who look at a law which says "dont say x, or we will arrest you" ... then claiming, i meant to be funny.
The laws that are made do not say "don't say x, unless of course you are having a big joke, in which case we will chortle with you".
If the law if not right, then try and change it, but dont whinge when you are on the wrong end of the law for trying to funny and clever, usually achieving neither.
The airport dude in the UK and this fella in Korea should've been locked up, not because the law is right, but because they are stupid and ignorant.
The case in the UK was a lot less clear-cut than that, though. People need to shut the hell up on Twitter, but no-one (seriously, no-one) would have really believed that Chambers intended to blow up the airport.
Dozens of tweets in direct contravention of a clear law was kind of setting up the Korean tweeter, though.
Umm... the whole problem with the UK atm (I can't speak for other countries but it does seem to be a similar case even in the US) is that there is no law which states "Don't say X..." Instead, we the proles, are walking in fields of verbal landmines, just waiting for someone to be offended by what we say.
Whilst this legal quagmire exists, I would encourage anyone and everyone to avoid Twitter - even for innocuous crap such as posting what you had for breakfast.
If the law was so specific, it would probably be easier to avoid breaking it. However there is also a certain Streisand effect comes into play when judges do attempt to make specific orders i.e. Don't publish the name of this wholesome footballer who cheated on his wife with this person who can be named because we don't give a shit about her.
"If the law if not right, then try and change it..."
Personally, I'm bored of stupid people who roll out this line whenever free speech issues come up in an attempt to be clever. It is both stupid and ignorant. Even if the law could be crowdsourced in such a way that your statement infers, it would be an absolute mess.
Should there be a law for allowing every single thing that a human being could say e.g. "Pink unicorns riding on a rainbow fart clouds of M&M's whilst circling Uranus" - should there be a law that specifically states people should be allowed to say that?
Maybe you should be locked up, to keep you safe from hearing things you don't like? Then we can all chortle at the irony of some idiot who thinks stupid people should be locked up!
"The airport dude in the UK and this fella in Korea should've been locked up, not because the law is right, but because they are stupid and ignorant."
Balderdash! The people who are stupid and ignorant are the ones passing these ridiculous laws and those trying to apply them.
Right, so to prevent the population, of a wealthy western looking country, from being influenced by the propaganda (prop-prop-prop propaganda style?), of a basket-case nutter next door, they have draconian dictatorship like laws, incase anybody wants to move there?
Am I missing something, or would it not seem that no one could take that propaganda seriously, and it should automaticly be treated as satire?
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