The court decided that even if the Internet broadcasting screen had abusive language about the incumbent president sent as text messages, it did not interfere with the broadcasting business.
According to the legal community today (1st), a man in his 30s, while watching an internet game broadcast hosted by Mr. B, at his home in Daejeon around October of last year, sent a donation of 1,000 won to Mr. I made it visible in the broadcast window.
It is said that the profanity was converted into voice and passed on to other viewers.
In this real-time Internet broadcast, viewers could send a text message and voice message to the host by sending a donation.
It was investigated that A repeated the same act six times in less than a month.
Prosecutors charged Mr. A with obstruction of business, seeing it as a crime of obstructing the host's internet live broadcasting business by force.
However, the court ruled that A could not be held guilty.
Judge Kim Taek-woo, the 6th independent criminal of the Daejeon District Court, said, "The moderator was able to control the behavior of Mr. A by using the function to set a forbidden word that blocks specific phrases." It wasn't about the host's broadcast."
It means that an insult can be established because the motive is to express dissatisfaction with the incumbent president, but it cannot be charged because the prosecution did not charge him with an insult.