Technology, Democracy A Potent Mix In South Korea
from the when-your-president-knows-HTML... dept
A very interesting article about how democracy and widespread broadband adoption in South Korea has impacted the country. Apparently, there's an online news site there that has tremendous impact on the politics of the country, and people seem proud of the fact that the country's president is the "first world president who knows HTML". With all the recent articles about how governments can use the internet to keep control over their populations, this is a good story showing the other side of the coin.
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Mob Rule?
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Re: Mob Rule?
On average people are sensitive to justice issues while US armed forces abroad are not (I also remember the case of a young girl raped in Okinawa which upset public opinion in Japan)
Honestly don t know about what happened in Korea, but if it is the same that happened in Italy ... sometimes justice requires mob-ilitation
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Re: Mob Rule?
The same week the girl in Okinawa was raped, another 12 year old in Okinawa was raped by a Japanese guy, but it never became big news.
Despite what foreign media says, US servicemen are subject to the laws of foreign countries during off-duty activities. US servicemen do get arrested and sent to jail for things they do on weekends. Whenever bad incidents occur, there are widespread feelings of remorse on the base, but foreign media usually shows only unapologetic politicians.
But yeah, there are also calls in the USA for removing troops from ungrateful countries and just let them suffer.
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