S Korea blogger found not guilty (for predicting economic collapse)

[Coventina]

Source: BBC

A South Korean blogger accused of spreading false information on the internet has walked free from court.

Park Dae-sung, better known as Minerva, built up a huge online following by making largely negative - and accurate - predictions on the economy.

Prosecutors said his brand of financial journalism was damaging to the public interest - but a Seoul court ruled there was no proof of malicious intent.

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Taking the Roman goddess of wisdom's name as his nom-de-plume, Minerva served up some uncannily accurate online predictions, including the collapse of the US investment bank Lehman Brothers.





Read more: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/8007942.stm

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Shame on him for predicting the world's financial collapse! How irresponsible!