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NewJeans Asks U.S. Court to Force Google to Identify YouTube User for Criminal Defamation Case
NewJeans is asking a U.S. court to unmask a YouTube user for criminal prosecution in Korea over allegedly defamatory statements about the K-pop band.
NewJeans is asking an American court to force Google to unmask an anonymous YouTube user so that the person can be criminally prosecuted under South Korea’s strict libel laws for posting “false and defamatory videos” about the K-pop band. The band’s target is the anonymous owner of a YouTube account called “7th Grade in Middle School,” which attorneys for NewJeans say has “engaged in name-calling or other mocking behavior” and has posted as many as 33 defamatory videos that have been viewed more than 13 million times. To win such a case, public figures like the members of NewJeans would need to prove that the YouTube user knowingly made false statements, a burden that’s intentionally difficult to satisfy.
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