In addition, the Democratic Party has decided on six laws amendment policies, including the Media Damage Relief Plan bill, which asks three times the liability for damages caused by false information as the number one media reform legislation.
Amendments to related laws on governance, such as the issue of improving the governance structure of broadcasters, were scheduled to be scheduled after the Lunar New Year. With an urgent media reform bill, it put weight on dealing with’fake news’. The amendment to the Information and Communication Network Act, which is considered a so-called punitive damage compensation system, is also included, and pain is expected in the process.
In addition, Rep. Woong-Rae Noh, chairman of the Democratic Party’s Media Win-Win TF, said in a conversation with Media Today on the 3rd, “Among the bills that do not have a confrontation with the media, media, social media portals, article comments, etc. It was decided to legislate six civil welfare laws with strict information.” When asked whether the punitive damage compensation system was included, Rep. Roh said it was included among the six bills.
Representative Roh Woong-rae explained that there are six bills in the media today, and three bills from the National Assembly’s Culture, Sports and Tourism Committee, two bills from the Science and Technology Information Broadcasting and Communications Commission, and one bill from the Legislative Judicial Council. Among them, the amendment to the law under the Ministry of Culture and Sports (3 cases) is the amendment to the Media Arbitration and Damage Relief Act (Amendment to the Media Arbitration Act, Rep. Shin Hyun-young), which contains a plan to allow victims to block reading articles due to media reports. In the case of the amendment to the Media Arbitration Act, which stipulates that the procedure should be followed as in the original plan and the amount of time and size reported when reporting information is made equal, and fine for negligence is imposed in case of violation, it should be possible if it is more than 1/2 of the size of the original report. He explained that he had put in a revision opinion. In addition, the amendment to the Media Arbitration Act (Rep. Young-joo Kim), which expands the number of media arbitration members from 90 to 120, was decided to follow the original draft.
In addition, one of the two revised bills of the Information and Communication Network Act (representative proposal of Rep. Yoon Young-chan) is the biggest issue. This is an amendment to the law that allows the court to determine compensation for damages up to three times the amount of damage in the event of deliberate and repetitive damage caused by false or illegal information.
Relief for malicious comments (Revised Bill of Information and Communication Network Act, Representative Yang Ki University), where a person affected by comments on the portal can request the suspension of the operation of the bulletin board, an official in the Roh office said, “The media is a proposal to block only relevant comments, not the entire bulletin board. “In addition, since the deliberation process may infringe on the freedom of expression when blocked, the TF that allows the online dispute mediation committee, which expanded the dispute mediation department of the Korea Communications Review Committee, rather than the internal portal committee to deliberate. “I did it.”
In the case of the amendment to the criminal law initiated by Rep. Won-wook Lee, TV and broadcasting were added from the current definition of publications subject to defamation as’newspapers, magazines, and radio’, but the Media Win-Win TF also added single-person media such as SNS and YouTube. A revised opinion was presented.
These are the bills that have been raised against the controversial law amendments to infringement on freedom of the press and overregulation. In particular, the revised bill of the Information and Communication Network Act initiated by Rep. Yoon Young-chan, known as the’punitive damages’ system, has also raised opposition within the media community. In the amendment, Assemblyman Yoon et al. newly established the provisions of Chapter 5 of this Act, Article 44-11 (Liability for Damages), saying, “Users are responsible for damaging the reputation of others by revealing false facts through intentional or gross negligence of other users. In the case of damages such as defamation due to the production or distribution of information or illegal information, the user who inflicted the damage may claim compensation for damages. “This is not the case if the user who caused the damage proves that there is no intention or gross negligence. Do”. In particular, Article 44 (2) of this amendment stipulates that “the court may determine the amount of damages within the range of not exceeding three times the amount of damages for a claim under paragraph 1”. When determining the amount of damages, △The degree of recognition of intentional or fear of damage △The amount of damage suffered from the violation △The period and number of violations △The condition of the property of the user who caused the damage A new clause has also been added to consider standards such as degree.
Accordingly, there were many objections from the opposition party that there was no legal standard for defining fake news or false manipulation information at the National Assembly’s over-defense meeting held on September 8 last year after the bill was introduced. It has been pointed out that it is excessive sanctions over the standards and scope of fake news or the scale of compensation. Representative Roh explained, “We are not trying to regulate specific media, but we are focused on relieving victims from media reports caused by fake news.”
In a phone call with Media Today on the 3rd, a member of the Democratic Party, Jeong Pil-mo, a member of the Media Win-Win TF, said, “We discussed mainly on how to prevent fraudulent manipulation information and damage on the Internet or YouTube.” In terms of over-defense, after the Lunar New Year, we will discuss at the second subcommittee for bill review on the 19th and 23rd.”
Rep. Seung-rae Cho, who is in charge of the ruling party of the National Assembly’s over-defense, said, “Broadcasting governance-related bills should be discussed with a long breath.” That is why we decided to discuss this as a priority.”
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