Puzzlet - How unfortunate. Is there a lawyer available to advise the Wikipedians? - SJ
On Tue, Dec 21, 2010 at 11:56 PM, Puzzlet Chung <[email protected]> wrote: > At most four Korean Wikipedians are charged with defamation of Song > Young-gil, the Mayor of Incheon Metropolitan City. > > According to the contributors, the prosecution is upon the Song's own > request, and is going to be over publicizing a fabricated sex scandal > in the article about him and (semi-)protecting it. The text in > question is merely a sum-up of various reports about the speculations > eventually found to be a hoax. Non-logged-in user(s) from various IP > addresses have tried to remove the whole controversy section, > including not only the scandal but other arguments about him, > replacing it with personal contrary comments and legal threats. The > edits are consequently reverted by some users and rollbacked by one > administrator. The admin, [[ko:User:Kys951]], is also accused of > being an abettor just because he is an admin. > > In the South Korean legal system, criminal defamation is partially a > "crime upon complaint," (친고죄/親告罪) which becomes irrelevant to be a > crime when the complainant chose to withdraw the case. (Note that I'm > not a specialist of law, especially in English terminology.) The > police of Southeastern Incheon thought the case itself is too > insignificant to be a criminal case and tried to persuade him to > withdraw it, only to be declined. > > Song has reportedly demanded the admin to remove the paragraph in > exchange for fixing the charge, which is definitely not the way how > Wikipedia works. > > Another concern about this incident is that this could happen to every > bit of contribution to the project. South Korean government had been > censoring any scribble on the web they think beneficial to North > Korea,[2] and for later on, anything they think "fraudulent" whenever > the state is in "threat," according to an exclusive report.[3] > > [1] > https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/ko/w/index.php?title=%EC%86%A1%EC%98%81%EA%B8%B8&diff=5832689 > [2] > http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/shame_on_democratic_south_korea_for_censoring_face.php > [3] http://www.hani.co.kr/arti/economy/it/455022.html > > _______________________________________________ > foundation-l mailing list > [email protected] > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l > -- Samuel Klein identi.ca:sj w:user:sj +1 617 529 4266 _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
