Apr 21, 2009

The Seoul Central District Court clears Minerva' sentence

Have you ever heard about the Minerva? A blogger who criticized the government's crappy economic policies and later got summoned to the court in jan due to the spreading falsehoods in South Korea.

The Seoul Central District Court clears his sentence as founding his innocent of violating the nation's electronic communications laws. he is now free of charge.

I feel really ashamed on South Korea that they were trying to punish and force to resrict the freedom of speech on the internet at a time.
I don't care either his opinions on economy that mainly caused his claim were the false information or he intended to damage public interests. (Honestly, Many of his predictions and opinions turned out to be true) But the only thing that goverment did wrong with this case is the fact that they didn't take their responsibility for their wrong leadership and policy.

Minerva was just a man who post his opinion on the forum site and gain his reputation for his practical and logical argument on economy circumstances.
His logic deserves to respect and was sound. there ain't a leaap in his analisys.

But the big media, especially the newspaper media chosun, joongang and Donga begant to deal his issues that had become big reputiation over the forum site and release his article and subjective criticism without any percolation.

His critical opinion was just only a speech on casual site's forum not for opinion to have intention damaging public intersest on South Korea.
However, the goverment who wanted to use the setting case of violating the nation’s electronic communications laws need to file their claim to those media companies, not minerva.

stupid goverment