South Korean Man Given Suspended Sentence For Retweeting NK Propaganda

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."

Thank goodness...

[hawks5999]

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

Re:I'm curious...

[Anonymous Coward]

Twitter would probably lock your account. Someone might get assigned to watch your behavior, but since you're a non-trivial donator to Democrat causes, it would quickly get dismissed as anti-Bush behavior and perfectly acceptable. Within three months, your Twitter account will be mentioned in a presidential speach explaining the abundance of freedoms in this country.

retweet!

[schlachter]

You would need to pack your belongings and immediately retweet to a safer location like Iwan.

Re:Thank goodness...

[demonlapin]

This is the country that still believes in fan death [wikipedia.org].