Tweeting has famously landed people in heaps of trouble: In fact, nine months ago, it got PR pro Justine Sacco fired and thrown into social-media no man's land. But getting thrown into jail? Thank you for not doing that, America.
But it's happening in South Korea, where, according to a New York Times story yesterday, Won Sei-hoon received a two-and-a-half-year sentence for attempting use the Internet to influence the country's 2012 election. Won, who was employed as director of the National Intelligence Service under former South Korean President Park Geun-hye, broke a law that forbids spy agency officials from public messaging about domestic politics.
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