Japan's parliament on Monday passed legislation making "online insults" punishable by imprisonment amid rising public concern over cyberbullying sparked by the suicide of a reality television star who had faced social media abuse.
It's another example of a theoretically good law that will get twisted by the system into something terrible. Not unlike all the government surveillance in the West that's been justified by counter terrorism or protecting kids from pedophiles.
Japan is a country where people can still be denied jobs and educations based on their parents being communists, so I have no doubt this law will ultimately be used for shitty purposes.
Japan is a country where people can still be denied jobs and educations based on their parents being communists, so I have no doubt this law will ultim
I wish I had a good source to give you. Unfortunately I only know about this because people I know have been subjected to it, and one person I know witnessed it happening (i.e. sat in on a meeting where a candidate was denied due to failing a background check for having parents in the JCP).
It's common enough that you can find people asking about whether it's true or not on stuff like Japanese Yahoo answers, but I'd rather say "I can't prove it" than trot that out as proof.
It's another example of a theoretically good law that will get twisted by the system into something terrible. Not unlike all the government surveillance in the West that's been justified by counter terrorism or protecting kids from pedophiles.
Japan is a country where people can still be denied jobs and educations based on their parents being communists, so I have no doubt this law will ultimately be used for shitty purposes.
Source? Cant find, sorry
I wish I had a good source to give you. Unfortunately I only know about this because people I know have been subjected to it, and one person I know witnessed it happening (i.e. sat in on a meeting where a candidate was denied due to failing a background check for having parents in the JCP).
It's common enough that you can find people asking about whether it's true or not on stuff like Japanese Yahoo answers, but I'd rather say "I can't prove it" than trot that out as proof.