A North Korean man who smuggled 'Squid Game' into the country is to be executed by firing squad and a high-school student who bought a USB drive with the show will be jailed for life, report says
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Six other students who watched "Squid Game" were sentenced to hard labor and their teachers may be sent to remote mines, Radio Free Asia reported.

twenty billion other publications repeat this uncritically

  • SorosFootSoldier [he/him, they/them]
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    3 years ago

    Don't even make no sense because Squid Show is supposed to be critical of capitalism, something the DPRK would be interested in.

      • ElChapoDeChapo [he/him, comrade/them]
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        3 years ago

        This is because of a South Korean law that makes it illegal for any media to praise the DPRK so that was as close as they could get without breaking the law.

        • acealeam [he/him]
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          3 years ago

          While the South Korean constitution guarantees freedom of speech and assembly for its citizens, behaviors or speeches in favor of North Korea, left-wing policies or Communism can be punished by the National Security Law. Political parties such as the Unified Progressive Party have been banned under the law, after one of its lawmakers Lee Seok-ki was accused of plotting a "pro-North Korean rebellion" under the 2013 South Korean sabotage plot.[4]

  • carbohydra [des/pair]
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    3 years ago

    I think "says US govt funded media outlet" might make a good addition to the "as planet burns" line you should add to every news headline ever

  • Awoo [she/her]
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    3 years ago

    This is good.

    This level of fuck up just ends up confirming to people that most content about the DPRK is bullshit. It's completely trivial shit to debunk and tonnes of people literally already saw the article about DPRK liking and commenting on the show.

    The people behind the radio-free media wing are completely out of touch with how the internet works. They keep saying and doing shit that ends up creating many more sceptics.