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NewJeans Want YouTube to Identify an Online Hater So They Can Sue Them in South Korea

NewJeans are asking a U.S. court to make Google reveal the identity of a YouTuber so they can pursue a defamation suit against them in South Korea.

NewJeans are asking a federal court to make Google reveal the identity of a user who’s allegedly been posting “false and defamatory videos” about the K-pop stars on YouTube. The ex parte application was filed at the end of March after NewJeans made a criminal complaint in South Korea, but authorities were unable to move forward with the case because they could not identify the anonymous user. But that’s not always the case, as The Times notes: Last year, a lawyer for the K-pop group IVE went through the U.S. courts to obtain the name of a YouTuber accused of making false statements about one of the band’s members; that subsequently led to a successful civil suit in South Korea.

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