21 More People Arrested Over Online Opinion Rigging Scandal In South Korea
I wonder if President Moon has cleverly decided to let authorities make their arrests for this online opinion rigging scandal involving his administration at a time when news coverage of it would be drowned out by the Inter-Korean and US-DPRK Summits?:
South Korean police said Monday they’ve found additional comment manipulation by a power blogger and his accomplices, who have been indicted for tempering with Internet comments on politically sensitive news articles.
Seoul Metropolitan Police Agency said the blogger, who goes by the nickname “Druking,” and his followers manipulated some 20,000 comments on 675 news articles using 2,290 different IDs from Jan. 17 to 18.
A ruling party lawmaker and former aide to President Moon Jae-in is also probed over his alleged ties with the blogger. (…….)
The police said it has booked 21 additional members of the online community founded by Druking for their involvement in the online opinion rigging scheme. The police said so far 30 people have been booked for the case. [Yonhap]
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I fully expect to read about Moon testifying the Korean equivalent of “At this point, Senator, what difference does it make?”
I expect this to blow over soon enough. The crooked Korean police already half buried it.
Meanwhile, the rightful President Pak languishes as a political prisoner of the commie moon regime.
The ruling party is refusing to expand the investigation, and one of the conservative party politicians is holding a hunger strike (he was the one who violently got attacked by a leftist). Moon Jae-in is pretty happy at this point to let the police minimize the damage to few low level supporters who are pawns. He will not let the investigation expand which will reveal that he and his high ranking officials were personally responsible for waging an online war to get himself elected. Why is this important? Many Conservatives were put in jail and silenced when Moon accused them of the same crimes that Moon himself has committed.
Korean voters are really the ones to blame.
Yes, Korean voters are really to blame. They are looking the other way with apathy because it’s the Conservatives who are accusing the ruling party for wrong doing.
There doesn’t seem to be the same outrage if this was the other way around. Imagine what the streets would have looked like if it was found that the Conservatives had manipulated the elections with rigged online votes and comments.
@AppeasingNorthKorea, I doubt President Moon would have personally ordered the online opinion rigging; he is too smart for that. His subordinates would have handled all of this to give Moon plausible deniability. If anyone goes down it will be minor players in my opinion. If someone does go down they will probably likely quietly have their sentences suspended and end up with cush payback jobs.
Also notice how this whole thing is coming out during the North Korean summit timeframe so it gets little media attention, plus the Korean public is probably less likely to criticize the Moon administration during the current peace initiative.
Like I said Moon is smart, because he is eliminating a threat and sending a message to others that only Internet activity in favor of liberal candidates will be accepted. If you begin to help conservatives online you will end up like Druking and the others that are currently in jail.
GIKorea, that sounds like Moon is aiming for a de facto one-party rule.
Gi, of course commie moon ordered it, just smart enough to write anything down.
I wonder how much of his 70% approval rating is Naver arranged horseshit.
Naver is an arm of South Korea commie party, 70% is a complete lie.
Sort of like “Trump has no path to 270″… Or “Blankenship is a contenda”… Or “President Park was actually guilty”…