Starship Entertainment, which exposed Taldeok Prison Camp and announced the end of the cyber rekka era, is expected to produce a terrifying synergy by using the post-filing notification system together with the enforcement decree of the law to eradicate false or manipulated information.
The shield of anonymity no longer works. They may have deluded themselves into thinking that deleting an account and erasing traces would allow them to hide safely in the vast shadow called "anonymity," but that flimsy calculation was completely off the mark.
Starship Entertainment, which at last dragged even the notorious cyber rekka "Taldeok Prison Camp," which had evaded domestic legal nets by nesting on overseas servers, into court through the U.S. discovery process, was praised for achieving something difficult even in the industry, and by finally bringing them to legal judgment it drove home that protecting artists is not "empty talk."
And that fearsome venom was handed an even stronger weapon called the "law to eradicate false or manipulated information." The "law to eradicate false or manipulated information," which goes into full effect today (7), was created not merely to block fake news but to fundamentally cut off the vicious cyber rekka ecosystem that turned others' suffering into a money-making tool. Until now, cyber defamation under the Act on Promotion of Information and Communications Network Utilization and Information Protection resulted in only fine-level punishments despite increasingly sophisticated and heinous methods, making it difficult to expect a deterrent effect. To supplement this, the law significantly increases penalties for fabricating and spreading false facts and laid a meticulous framework to make sure perpetrators pay back even the illicit revenue gained from crimes.
The law to eradicate false or manipulated information gives the entertainment industry a powerful means to protect artists. The law is expected to become the most solid and powerful shield to protect artists' dignity and brands in an entertainment industry long bruised by indiscriminate mockery and fake news, and it appears to be a turning point that can uproot malicious creators who were obsessed with chasing views.
Starship Entertainment's uncompromising principle that has gone beyond eradicating malicious commenters to "extermination" is set to produce a truly terrifying synergy when combined with the law to eradicate false or manipulated information.
Starship's response was on a different level from the entertainment world's perfunctory complaint filings or showy warnings that assume leniency. To excise the malicious rumors that have tormented its artists, including IVE's Jang Wonyoung, it relentlessly dug in without sparing time or expense. Starship's declaration that "we have already collected all evidence regardless of whether posts were deleted or set to private, or whether an account was changed or deactivated" was tantamount to a chilling death sentence for malicious commenters.
Having already identified the operator of Taldeok Prison Camp and won a 50 million won damages ruling, Starship, which built the perfect manual for "cyber rekka hunting," moved to eradicate malicious commenters with a "post-filing notification" system under the policy of giving them no time to respond, unlike the industry's usual practice of warnings followed by lawsuits. Now that a new bill with significantly tougher punishment standards has been added, there is nothing left to hesitate or compromise about. The tacit threat that "we will show you what real venom is" chilled the entire online ecosystem, and malicious commenters can no longer think casually that "a warning will be enough" — they now have to fear that a wrong flick of a finger could ruin them.
The era of parasitic malicious commenters who fattened themselves by making artists' blood and sweat a laughingstock is coming to an end. Tolerance and exceptions were long ago tossed in the trash. No matter how much you hide in a mouse hole, there is nowhere to run. Attention is focused on how Starship Entertainment's "real venom," which relentlessly pursues and ultimately catches offenders, will mete out punishment on an even more powerful legal stage.
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