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mack4289
Joined: 06 Dec 2006
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 Posted: Mon Jun 25, 2007 8:58 pm Post subject: are drunken political arguments illegal too? |
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http://joongangdaily.joins.com/article/view.asp?aid=2877254
"Which of the following Web postings violate Korea�s election law: Praising a specific candidate on an individual blog; disparaging a specific candidate in a reply to an election news article; or copying and pasting a media poll on a candidate�s fan site?
Easy. All of the above. Starting Friday, the National Election Commission began to prohibit any postings that support or oppose certain candidates. It is following a rule that takes effect 180 days before any presidential election." |
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seoulsucker
Joined: 05 Mar 2006
Location: The Land of the Hesitant Cutoff
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| Posted: Mon Jun 25, 2007 10:04 pm Post subject: |
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| While this seems a bit extreme, given Korean netizens' ability to take things WAY over the top via the internet, I can see some of the logic behind this. |
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Bibbitybop
Joined: 22 Feb 2006
Location: Seoul
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| Posted: Mon Jun 25, 2007 10:35 pm Post subject: Re: are drunken political arguments illegal too? |
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| mack4289 wrote: |
http://joongangdaily.joins.com/article/view.asp?aid=2877254
"Which of the following Web postings violate Korea�s election law: Praising a specific candidate on an individual blog; disparaging a specific candidate in a reply to an election news article; or copying and pasting a media poll on a candidate�s fan site?
Easy. All of the above. Starting Friday, the National Election Commission began to prohibit any postings that support or oppose certain candidates. It is following a rule that takes effect 180 days before any presidential election." |
Wow, a step for free speech and democracy.
The rest of the "free" world is going to laugh at Korea for this. |
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JMO
Joined: 18 Jul 2006
Location: Daegu
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| Posted: Mon Jun 25, 2007 10:37 pm Post subject: Re: are drunken political arguments illegal too? |
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| Bibbitybop wrote: |
| mack4289 wrote: |
http://joongangdaily.joins.com/article/view.asp?aid=2877254
"Which of the following Web postings violate Korea�s election law: Praising a specific candidate on an individual blog; disparaging a specific candidate in a reply to an election news article; or copying and pasting a media poll on a candidate�s fan site?
Easy. All of the above. Starting Friday, the National Election Commission began to prohibit any postings that support or oppose certain candidates. It is following a rule that takes effect 180 days before any presidential election." |
Wow, a step for free speech and democracy.
The rest of the "free" world is going to laugh at Korea for this. |
True, when I was growing up in Ireland , I used to get my jollies by laughing at stuff like this. The rest of the world won't notice or care. |
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hubba bubba
Joined: 24 Oct 2006
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| Posted: Mon Jun 25, 2007 10:50 pm Post subject: |
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| What would Rain do? |
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calbruin
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Personally, I had to read the article(s) regarding the ban of netizen political expression multiple times before I was sure that I hadn't misinterpreted / misread something.
It's absolutely ridiculous to me that people are not rioting over this in Korea. I wrote the following (brief) letter to the editors at Korea Times in response:
http://www.koreatimes.co.kr/www/news/opinon/2007/06/161_5287.html |
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