Police are investigating three bloggers for allegedly posting online articles criticizing the government and then manipulating the number of hits they got to make their writing appear more widely read.
Officers seized computers from them during raids on their homes and offices in Seoul, and Suncheon, South Jeolla Province, Monday. They are said to have posted articles libeling President Lee Myung-bak or denouncing the government on Daum's online forum Agora before fabricating the hits.
Police are investigating whether they artificially made their writings become ``best articles'' in order to draw Internet users' attention and spread anti-government opinions.
Shit.
9 comments:
they should understand korean culture.
Do you know any of these bloggers? Do you know many native Korean bloggers in the area?
The article didn't say whether they were all Korean or not, but since they didn't specifically mention any other nationalities, I'm guessing all three were Korean.
If the Koreans can't "understand Korean culture," what hope is there for everyone else? ;)
I would be very careful about anything I say about the government or the economy. This isn't exactly a democracy. More of a mobocracy.
I'm not sure click manipulation ought to be a punishable offense.
Then again, the internet is a different beast here. It can bring down governments and threaten economies.
Oops....I'd look out my window right about now if I were you, Brian.
Give me your vote! Just remember that your opinions mean nothing to me, and if I don't like them, watch out!
'Fess up, Brian. All three of them are really you, aren't they?
Maybe they nominated themselves for a golden klog award.
see, if you could be president for two terms in Korea, like in America, then the president would only try crap like this during their second term.
If anyone ever made it to the second term: the way I've seen Korea turn on its presidents so far makes me think a two-term presidency law would be a moot point.
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