Japan to start jailing people for online insults
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Japan to start jailing people for online insults
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Re: Japan to start jailing people for online insults
#2"Your mother was a hamster and your father smelt of elderberries." Insult?
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#3This isn't a start. Its an increase of the maximum prison time of an existing law. It is a response to the bullying of Hana Kimura that led to her committing suicide. Two men connected to bullying her were fined 9,000 yen.
This law will be abused even if it had good intentions.
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#4"Your mother was a hamster and your father smelt of elderberries." Insult?
Believe it or not, straight to jail.
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#5This will really only help to secure Japans one party rule in my opinion. If it was really about peoples feelings, Japan would do a lot more for peoples mental health.
Posted about this also a few weeks back: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31741219
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#6There should be some actual culpability for making decisions this obviously wrong.
Re: Japan to start jailing people for online insults
#7This isn't a start. Its an increase of the maximum prison time of an existing law. It is a response to the bullying of Hana Kimura that led to her committing suicide. Two men connected to bullying her were fined 9,000 yen. This law will be abused even if it had good intentions.
9000 yen? It does seem like if you’re going to have the law in the first place a fine that cheap sort of undercuts it. The crime enters the news, and then everyone sees the fine is less than the cost of a special edition fancy blu ray of her wrestling.
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#8There should be some actual culpability for making decisions this obviously wrong.
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Re: Japan to start jailing people for online insults
#9This isn't a start. Its an increase of the maximum prison time of an existing law. It is a response to the bullying of Hana Kimura that led to her committing suicide. Two men connected to bullying her were fined 9,000 yen. This law will be abused even if it had good intentions.
9000 yen? It does seem like if you’re going to have the law in the first place a fine that cheap sort of undercuts it. The crime enters the news, and then everyone sees the fine is less than the cost of a special edition fancy blu ray of her wrestling.
Just wait until someone indults an elected official.
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#10Here in Germany we once had a guy have his apartment raided by 6 cops because he wrote a tweet to a local politician that said "You're such a dick". That's all he said.