The Economist updated the story of the Minerva phenomenon in Korea after prosecutors made the arrest of Park Dae Sung:
Mr Park seems to have fallen foul of both the two main causes of official paranoia: the internet and the financial crisis. It has been alarmed about online activism ever since this helped opposition forces organise protests that brought central Seoul to a halt last year. Over the financial crisis, the finance ministry has urged foreign journalists to “care about the Korean people’s psychology”…
Some additional foreign news media reports on Minerva: BBC News, Christian Science Monitor, The Guardian, Time Magazine and The Washington Post.
The judge that signed the warrant in the Minerva case also got wrapped into the online debate about defamation on the Internet after he was criticized about issuing the warrant.
In a related case, Korean police have opened up another Pandora’s box requiring Korean portals to submit their search data history to track down a murder suspect:
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