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Crackdowns on internet criticism of the president continue. On March 6 the cyber crime division of the Seoul Metropolitan Police Agency confirmed it had searched the home of A, the leader of a site hosted on Daum that opposes President Lee.
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I don't really like the idea of searching someone's home because you don't like what they're saying, but this sounds more like his home is being searched because he's using it to run illegal protests, not because he's running a site.
You mean, used as an excuse to search his home, arrest him, and shut down his protest site...because they didn't like what he said.
Not sure about this. Hmmmm. What if a foreigner put's something anti bak on his/her blogsite? Do they raid the foreigner house? You'd figure in a country where the state controls the media as much as here then there wouldn't be a need to really control the internet. Couldn't imagine this happening back home. Creepy
Anonymous6 wrote: You mean, used as an excuse to search his home, arrest him, and shut down his protest site...because they didn't like what he said. He wasn't arrested and the following day he wrote about the search, so if their aim was to arrest him and shut down his site, epic fail. Again, I don't like it — I'm not even comfortable with what they're purporting to do — but the facts seem to differ from that characterization.
What do they consider illegal protests? It seems like even trying to go show your respects to late president was deemed illegal with the police blocking the site with bus and pushing people back.
I'm pretty sure a lot of those demonstrations were blocked because they didn't get permits.
You need a permit to show your respects to the late president?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_VbRkbpsTxA&feature=related Here's one video. The people are clearly not there to protest.
Jebeezers, If you want to do so with a large number of people in public space, yes.
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