President Lee Calls for Stern Punishment for Hate Speech
This is clearly being targeted at people protesting against Chinese influence in South Korea:
President Lee Jae Myung urged officials on Tuesday to take stern measures against the sp
read of hate speech and disinformation, calling such acts crimes that must be stamped out.
Lee made the remark during a Cabinet meeting, stressing that such extreme expressions spreading across social media and through other channels fuel social anxiety amid a growing polarization in society.
“There are still anachronistic acts of discrimination and hatred based on race, origin or nationality in some parts of our society,” Lee said.
“On social media, hate speech targeting specific groups is spreading indiscriminately, while false and manipulated information remains rampant,” he said.
Lee’s remarks came as South Korea has seen growing anti-China demonstrations by some conservative groups. Last week, the chair of the Korean Red Cross resigned following revelations about his past racist comments about foreign ambassadors.
Lee strongly denounced those acts as crimes that threaten democracy and everyday life, and urged police to do their utmost to root out such behaviors.
You can read more at the link, but if you protest against China you are supposedly racist. So when the anti-Japan or anti-U.S. protests inevitable start up at some point by the Korean left will President Lee ask for those people to be arrested as well?
Hate speech just means dissent.
Lee wants to be like Xi.