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bassexpander
Joined: 13 Sep 2007
Location: Someplace you'd rather be.
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 Posted: Thu Apr 16, 2009 5:30 am Post subject: Portals held liable for online defamation |
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http://english.yonhapnews.co.kr/techscience/2009/04/16/0601000000AEN20090416006500315.HTML
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Portals ordered to pay damages over defamatory comments
SEOUL, April 16 (Yonhap) -- The Supreme Court on Thursday ordered the country's leading portals to compensate for damages caused by a failure to moderate user comments posted on their news service Web sites.
The four companies -- NHN, Daum Communications Corp., SK Communications Co. and Yahoo! Korea -- were ordered to pay a combined 30 million won (US$23,000) to the plaintiff, identified by his surname Kim, for emotional trauma caused by defamatory comments against him that were posted on news stories carried by the companies' Web pages. |
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Kea Joenee
Joined: 09 Jan 2009
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not the governments business to regulate speech. Idiotic and a bad sign of things to come.
What if college students sued youtube for all the crap and blackmail that shows up? |
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CeleryMan
Joined: 12 Apr 2007
Location: Seoul
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This is actually progress for South Korea and South Koreans. Becoming a more litigious society is both good and necessary.
While on the subject... are there any attorneys on this Forum who will help me file a class action lawsuit against the incompetent Korean politicians who squandered and f**ked up the FTA with the US?
Limited access to USDA beef and constantly being subjected to sub-standard Korean horse meat is a gross violation of my civil liberties.
Any takers? |
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