Korean Website Faces Criticism for Publishing Information About People Accused of Crimes
If you are accused of a crime I can understand having protections to your identity. Sometimes people get falsely accused of things and spreading their information online causes them irreparable harm. However, once convicted of a crime there shouldn’t be issues with posting information about the criminal:
Concerns surrounding the disclosure of the personal information of convicted criminals and those suspected of having committed crimes have been mounting in South Korea, sparked by the recent revival of a name-and-shame website known as “Digital Prison,” around four years after it was shut down by South Korean authorities.
The debate was triggered by the unauthorized release of the personal details of a 25-year-old man surnamed Choi, who is accused of stabbing his girlfriend to death on top of a building in the densely populated Gangnam district of Seoul on May 6 at around 5 p.m. Local reports suggested that Choi has admitted to planning the crime.
Choi’s personal information, including his full name, photos, university entrance exam scores, the medical school he was accepted into and social media accounts, rapidly spread across the internet, with Digital Prison pinpointed as the originating platform.
Following the release of Choi’s personal information on Wednesday, Digital Prison published more posts containing the information of several other criminals and those suspected of having committed crimes. These include the personal information of a YouTuber in his 50s who allegedly stabbed a fellow YouTuber near the Busan District Court on Thursday morning on live stream.
Korea Herald
Hmmm… let’s consider.
In a just society, should someone accused, but not convicted, of a crime be exposed?
Probably not.
In America, those who are accused of a crime are exposed, many times to support an agenda of some sort. Sometimes, everyone knows there is no crime, yet the media runs wild.
Those convicted of a crime are also exposed. Is this correct? Unclear. If you have “paid your debt to society” shoud you undergo further punishment that limits opportunity?
Considering the rate of recidivism, perhaps reminding everyone who the bad guys are is correct?
Let’s consider further.
You Trumpeans should get over yourselves. lol. He wouldn’t be in so many trials if he wasn’t an immoral dirty old man corrupted by money and sex. Lying, robbing, thieving, and defrauding, will only get more votes from such uneducated dumb racists, the same kinds as Trump. This does not bode well for over half the country that believes all his lies are just trumped-up charges designed to politically assassinate him unfairly. lol.
I almost agree with the government as some people commit crimes to get their name in the news… like chinabot’s mom stealing red ball caps and spray-painting his tennis shoes gold…
“You Trumpeans should get over yourselves.”
I wasn’t talking about Trump, but since you see everything only in terms of Trump and racism, I will address your comment.
Every single accusation about Trump turned out to be false… from Russia collusion to píss hookers to “inject bleach” to grabbing the steering wheel of the presidential limousine so he could personally lead the armed insurrection.
Except he did, gasp, have TWO scoops of ice cream.
The criminal charges are equally groundless. Everybody knows that. In fact, you wouldn’t be able to explain what the crime is, why it’s a crime, and why Trump should be charged while others were not.
But the criminal charges are not about a conviction. They are about the process being the punishment.
But more importantly, they are about keeping Trump in court instead of the campaign trail.
As the “random” judges are all very anti-Trump and the jurisdictions are in areas with the most liberal jurists, there might even be a conviction of sorts until it is overturned on appeal in a less biased area.
But based on poll numbers, even in the most liberal media, this lawfare doesn’t seem to be working.
This could be because Americans are basically a fair and decent people and they don’t like the political weaponization of the legal system.
It also could be becasue the people who hate Trump the loudest and push for the legal system to come down on him the hardest, also demand catch-and-release for real criminals committing real crimes that affect everyone every day, from broken car windows to shoplifting controls to the knockout game to poop in the walkway.
Maybe people are tired of this and kinda wish for a return to the cheap gas, full employment, and low inflation of the Trump years.
Maybe they always did.
Like the covid vaccine is Safe & Effective, masks protect you, covid definitely came from animals, Russia will be out of ammo by next month … and then watching the truth take years to leak out… we see the same thing happening with the 2020 election.
Every new little revelation moves in the direction that there was dishonesty in the election… but it is so gradual that those denying the loudest will be, “Well I always knew that,” after enough time has passed to make doing anything about it unlikely.
Protip: The fraudulent 2020 election is actually 100% clear to anybody who understands statistics…which leaves out most Americans.