It's the fate that awaits us all if we are not removed from the platform:
"Authorities have cracked down on spreading disinformation or leaking personal data, and have interrogated 202 people for related criminal activity. Among them was a man who claimed on YouTube last month that the health authorities were manipulating test results to keep government critics in quarantine. The authorities are trying to balance privacy with safety. The police have asked prosecutors to indict 13 people accused of providing false information, including several who lied to epidemiological investigators about their health or the places they visited while potentially carrying the virus...."
They have been, it's been well-documented across the world and from their very own reports, and yet it as if it never happened and it will soon be criminal to point out inconsistencies and contradictions in official accounts of anything.
On top of that is the fact that the biggest spreaders of disinformation and lies on the planet are the very ma$$ media organizations that have bylines in the paper. We are truly living in evil times.
"In South Korea, Covid-19 Comes With Another Risk: Online Bullies" by Choe Sang-Hun, New York Times Sept. 19, 2020
BUSAN, South Korea — The scandal that riveted South Korea’s online busybodies began when Kim Ji-seon checked into a beachside condominium in February. A 29-year-old office worker planning a June wedding, she had nothing more salacious in mind than meeting with members of her church to organize a youth program.
Then Ms. Kim tested positive for the coronavirus — and the details of her life became grist for South Korea’s growing culture of cyberbullying and misinformation, a phenomenon that has complicated the country’s widely praised digital effort to find those infected with the coronavirus, but it has also empowered trolls, harassers and other 21st-century scourges.
I'm told she was “flabbergasted,” and the purpose of this article is to lay the groundwork for removal of content that conflicts with the official narrative of the evil, genocidal maniacs who have foisted this COVID fraud upon us for their own nefarious purposes. Censorship and elimination of all dissent is a necessary requirement for the coming Communi$t World Government.
The global fight against the pandemic has raised privacy concerns across countries. Governments, including those of Italy, Israel and Singapore, have used cellphone data to track potentially infected people and their contacts. China has employed mobile phone apps with little disclosure about how they track people. Venezuela has urged neighbors to turn each other in.
So Venezuela is no different than the U.S., is it?
Tracking "potential" infections, huh?
South Korea, an intensely connected country where nearly everyone totes a smartphone, has taken those efforts a step beyond. In addition to making some personal data public, the authorities sometimes use it to send text messages to people whose cellular data history indicates they were in proximity to an infected person. Other than China, South Korea is virtually the only country in the world whose government has the power to collect such data at will during an epidemic, according to Prof. Park.
You are looking at the future after the Great Re$et, and the technological terror of totalitarianism coming out of "free" South Korea.
May God watch after and protect us all.
In the initial desperate months of the pandemic, government websites uploaded a detailed sketch of each patient’s daily life until they were diagnosed and isolated. The government did not reveal patients’ names but sometimes released revealing data such as their addresses and employers.
That rush of data fed a growing culture of online harassment. In South Korea, doxxing — digging up and publishing malicious personal information — had already been a growing problem, often cited in the recent suicides of K-pop stars.
Remember when they said heavy metal music makes kids commit suicide?
Add the suicides to the COVID death toll, btw, even if the media will not.
Restaurants visited by patients were sometimes treated as if they were cursed. Citing one female patient’s frequent visits to karaoke parlors, online trolls claimed that she must be a prostitute. Gay South Koreans began to fear being outed, prompting the government to promise them anonymity in testing after an outbreak erupted at a gay club in Seoul in May.
Should have protested in the streets.
Oh, wait a minute, a pastor and his flock did that and then came down with COVID.
Must have been the wrong kind of protest.
Often the harassment proved persistent. The unfounded rumors about Kim Ji-seon and her congregation emerged in February but are still circulating today. Kim Dong-hyun, the congregant whom trolls had falsely accused of having a relationship with Ms. Kim, said his girlfriend was recently asked about the “infamous immoral man” in his church.
Try reading a Bo$ton Globe everyday.
“It’s amazing how die-hard these rumors can be,” said Kim Dong-hyun, a shipping company employee.
“I once could not understand why entertainment industry stars killed themselves after becoming targets of online bullying,” he added. “I do now.”
As the stories of abuse mounted, the government pulled back on some of its disclosures.
The government no longer reveals a patient’s age, sex, nationality or workplace. It also doesn’t reveal the names of places that the patient recently visited if everybody that person encountered has already been identified. It removes from public view any information it does disclose after two weeks.
As the virus has resurged in recent months, the authorities have cracked down on spreading disinformation or leaking personal data, and have interrogated 202 people for related criminal activity. Among them was a man who claimed on YouTube last month that the health authorities were manipulating test results to keep government critics in quarantine, as well as six people who circulated rumors that a patient visited places in southern Seoul that he had not been.
Still, the authorities are trying to balance privacy with safety. The police have asked prosecutors to indict 13 people accused of providing false information, including several who lied to epidemiological investigators about their health or the places they visited while potentially carrying the virus.
Bless the Koreans trying to stay out of the clutches of tyrannical authority.
Public shame has proved effective. Many South Koreans patients dreaded stigma more than the virus itself, according to research by Seoul National University’s Graduate School of Public Health. People paid attention: One survey in May showed six out of 10 people checked patient data on government websites, with the vast majority of those saying they found it useful.
Even Kim Dong-hyun and his friends said they understood why the information had to be gathered and disclosed, but they also spoke of the social burden that infected people face. The government closed down Kim Dong-hyun’s workplace temporarily after he tested positive, he said, and his co-workers had to go into quarantine.
The sense of guilt over that, he said, “was harder to bear than the bodily pain caused by Covid-19.”
Mercifully, the Globe cut it short there.
Both Kim Ji-seon and Kim Dong-hyun are members of the Onchun Presbyterian Church. Some of its members checked into the beachfront property in Busan in February expecting to do little more than organize church business, but some people online falsely accused their church of being affiliated with another, called Shincheonji, which has long been vilified in South Korea as a cult and once dominated headlines as the center of an initial wave of infections.
Onchun’s senior pastor, the Rev. Noh Jeong-kag, denied any link to Shincheonji but said he was looking into whether members of that church infected his congregants while attending services undercover to poach worshipers, something it has been accused of doing.
Onchun’s 32 infected members have all survived. For some, fighting Covid-19 has been a deeply religious experience.
Kim Moon-seok, 68, a retired truck driver, said doctors told his wife, Kim Hang-ja, to prepare for his funeral. But he said that while he was slipping in and out of a coma, he saw a nurse praying at his bedside and later heard God’s voice.
“I lost 40 percent of my lung capacity because of Covid-19, but I found God,” Mr. Kim said.
In June, Kim Ji-seon and 20 formerly infected church members agreed to donate their blood plasma to help treat other patients. “It was to show our thanks to those dedicated nurses who treated us,” said Kim Chang-yeon, then Kim Ji-seon’s fiancé.
We have been told that doesn't work, and to see God quoted in the pre$$ is blasphemous.
Kim Ji-seon and Kim Chang-yeon married that same month. Guests wore masks and gloves and kept socially distanced. The couple canceled a honeymoon in Thailand and spent three days in a South Korean hotel while the virus raged outside, but their wedding had one special event: Kim Dong-hyun, the man whom trolls accused of carrying on an affair with the bride, sang and danced with Kim Chang-yeon in a performance for Kim Ji-seon.
“I wanted to show to those who spread the malicious rumors that our friendship is not what they thought it was,” Kim Dong-hyun said.....
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Once they find you, you are put on a blacklist like in China because "the virulent language and comparisons echoed that of conservative protesters at rallies in dozens of U.S. cities earlier in the pandemic, including some who successfully pressured governors and local officials into lifting restrictions on businesses and social activities."
Related:
"The increase in Arizona followed the state Department of Health Service’s recent changing of its case-counting methodology to adopt an updated national standard that includes “probable” results from less-accurate antigen testing. The counting change resulted in big bulges of additional cases Thursday and Friday as the department updated its records to include more than 1,300 probable cases from September and previous months....."
Hey, it isn't like they are manipulating test results as the pre$$ downplays the lack of deaths due to all the "probable new cases" that are 90% non-infectious and are registering common colds as positive results.
