Well, this probably says a lot:
A writer has filed a lawsuit against the authors of alleged malicious comments against his pro Japan column on a political website.
The prosecutor’s office confirmed that it began an investigation on Friday regarding the case brought by Kim Wan sup against 570 internet users he claims are responsible for the comments.
The accused allegedly posted malicious comments containing profane and slanderous expressions to protest Kim’s column which asserted Korea should hand over the Dokdo islets to Japan.
Prosecutors appear to be of a different mind, however:
However, prosecutors say Kim’s pro Japanese position is at least in part responsible for triggering the malicious response. Despite their rather spiteful content, the postings are part of an overall debate surrounding Kim’s remarks on Dokdo, the prosecution said.
However, the prosecution are also taking into account that tough controls on online content without established standards would infringe freedom of expression on the internet.
This after prosecutors busted about 20 people for leaving malicious comments on articles on the death of the son of pro-North Korean activist Lim Su-kyung.
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Normally, I like much of the work of Korean prosecutors but their biggest problem is the interference that they face from other parts of the Korean Government (Blue House, Prosecutor General, etc.). This inaction, of course, makes the idea of due process in Korea a joke, best told when one is numb from drinking soju.
I read Kim Wansop’s book. I am surprised he hasnt been lynched yet.
The people who issue threats should be arrested, no matter who or what they are reacting to. Ridiculous that attacks against leftists are indictable (threateners deserved to be prosecuted though), whereas attacks against those voicing opinions against the norms of lemminghood are not.
Does that mean that when luxbearer and nulji go beyond their normal mere idiocy into malice, legal action can be taken against them?
No, Slim, as stupid as Nulji and Lux are, I don’t think I’ve ever read anything they’ve written that I’d call a threat on someone’s life. By threat I mean threat of violence or death.
Also, Slim, the S.K. prosecutors’ jurisdiction doesn’t extend to grown men who live with their mothers in upstate New Jersey.
Heres how lame the prosecuters office is. Sexual predators are given light sentences, no jail time as it will interfere with their livelihood. Check out the story at lost nomand.
“upstate” new jersey, michael? I never heard it called that. Garden of toxic wastes maybe, but not upstate. I lived for awhile in the southern half of the dump.
“upstate” new jersey, michael? I never heard it called that.
I’m from nowhere near there, but I have heard “upstate New Jersey” or “upstate Jersey” said before. Maybe on the news.
“Upstate” isn’t used just for New York, though it’s probably most commonly used with New York in mind.
Same with “tri-state.” I used to live in the part of Minnesota where “the tri-state area” referred to parts of Minnesota, Iowa, and Wisconsin. The local Big-three network affiliates referred to their stations “serving the tri-state area.” But when a New Yorker friend heard me say this, he was adamant that I was “wrong, wrong, wrong. ‘Tri-state area’ is only used to refer to the area around New York City.”
Geez, you’d think New Yorkers owned the language or something and the rest of us are just renting it out.
You are, Kush. ;))
PS nobody in NJ calls it upstate.
Even as a proud native of Pennsylvania, where people tend to look down on New Jersey, I think associating Nulji with the Garden State is invidiously unfair.
In this region, Sperwer is correct on upstate apllying only to New York. New Jersey is measured by “what exit”?
Damn, Sperwer, I’m from the Left Coast, fuggediboutit, will ya?
Budda-bing, Budda-bang! That’s da place when dey tilted the continent all dose loose marbles, nut ‘n bolts rolled to, ca-peesh? :))