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Cyberbullies in Japan could now face up to a year in prison, as the government cracks down on online abuse following the suicide of a 22-year-old professional wrestler and reality TV star who was hounded on social media.
“It’s important to try to stamp out the kind of vicious insults that have sometimes even driven people to die,” justice minister Yoshihisa Furukawa told reporters on Tuesday. “The revision to the law doesn’t unjustly limit freedom of expression.” The justice ministry said on its website that the law would not be used to punish public criticism of politicians. It also said the stricter measures would not affect its definition of abuse — “showing contempt for someone, without basis in fact, in a way that could come to the notice of unspecified or large numbers of people”.
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