cross-posted from: https://piefed.zip/c/news/p/1395876/streamer-troll-johnny-somali-found-guilty-on-all-counts-sentenced-to-south-korean-prison-l
Ramsey Khalid Ismael — better known as Johnny Somali, the infamous American streamer arrested in Japan, Israel, and South Korea for his provocative behavior — has been imprisoned in South Korea.
They should also seize all his revenue from streaming, as proceeds of crime. And fine all the streaming platforms for aiding a criminal based on how many viewers they gave him/how much they paid him for being a criminal nuisance. They profited by his criminal activity drawing views to their platforms, and they generated ad revenue off of those criminal activities.
We should then imprison everyone who watched his videos for contributing to his crimes, and everyone who talks about him for providing advertisement to him helping him do his crimes. And at least fine the people whom he offended for allowing for there to be a crime to begin with.
Just throw everyone in jail!
Oh yes, yes, let’s take things to completely absurd takes, once someone suggests that the guy shouldn’t be allowed to profit off his crime (which he did, clearly), and that the tech companies that have also been profiting off his crimes should also be accountable. It’s not like confiscating wealth as ‘proceeds of crime’ is an actual legal thing in most places or anything!
Defend those corporations! Tech overlords are always innocent!
Twit.
You already did
I’m assuming you’re just a troll, much like the asshat you’re defending. “Drug dealers should be allowed to keep the money they earned by dealing drugs!”, no, they shouldn’t, and they generally don’t get to. “Streamers should get to keep the profits they made by committing crimes for their audience!”, again, no, they shouldn’t, but for some reason they generally seem to get to. Guys got a net worth estimated at about $3million, money he’s earned by committing criminal acts and recording them. Money that he’s paid by American corporations as a benefit of him committing crimes in foreign countries, for the amusement of a (generally) American audience.
Calling that out isn’t absurd.
You just compared a fine for Twitch and YouTube to “throwing everyone in jail”. Touch grass.
Congratulations! Today you get to learn about hyperbole and exaggeration!
Witnessing and talking about a crime isnt a crime. Providing infrastructure to commit a crime is a crime.
So the DPW is responsible for people who speed or drive drunk? Or is your understanding of the law laughably stupid and childish?
Idk what DPW is. Web platforms are responsible for users posting illegal content. That has always been the case. This is no different.
Section 230 prevents this.
Yes, yes, please tell me how USA laws apply everywhere, and are the greatest laws ever to exist, while your president shits all over your country, disregards all your laws cause he’s got the supreme court in his pocket, brags about committing war crimes at your state of the union, and is off threatening genocides etc. Please, do preach on about USA’s special exceptional status, while the USA is a total dumpster fire.
I’m sure the south korean court was like “Shit guys! We gotta make sure we try this person by American laws here in South Korea!” and all the other foreign countries in which this asshat has operated. This fucker got paid by American streaming companies to commit crimes in foreign countries. If a foreign country’s businesses were paying people to commit crimes in America, I’m sure the Americans would be totally cool trying that foreigner by foreign laws too! They totally wouldn’t just gitmo the guy out of existence, or deport him to El Salvador with ZERO due process.
You may be on to something! They SHOULD emulate America! Deport him to North Korea without due process and let the North deal out whatever Justice they see fit. They execute people for merely WATCHING social media there, I’m sure they’d love to have this dipshit.
Jesus Christ dude, take a breath.
If they are American companies, they are protected by those laws. Which a lot of the big tech companies are.
But again, who hurt you? What part of my comment made it seem like I like shitbag Trump?
They are not protected at all by those laws in S Korea… Sure S Korea might not have much leverage to actually do anything to them if they’re not stationed there. But US laws mean absolute jack shit outside… you know, the US.
Right, you just answered your own question. If they are outside America they have no jurisdiction over the American company. If they are inside America, they are protected by 230.
Oh wow, you really are daft. If so, then why does the EU commission keep fining Google, Microsoft, Apple, Facebook and others billions of euros?