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>Apparently South Korea is not the only country with strict defamation laws.

RR>Poland has similar "Insult" laws..

RR>Poland's insult laws include provisions against insulting groups or
individua
  >based on national, ethnic, racial, or religious affiliation, with penalties
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  >ntially including imprisonment up to three years. There are also laws
protect
  > the good name of the Republic of Poland, the president, and other heads of
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  >e from public insult, also punishable by imprisonment.

Some of that is understandable, to do with race and religion and such.
If you go after people for saying something nasty about a country's
leader, I think the prisons would be overflowing in most countries.. B)

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