Crime And (A Very Strange) Punishment: Activist Ordered To Tweet Apology 100 Times
We’ve heard of defamation cases involving Twitter costing over $400,000 in a settlement, or tens of thousands in legal fees, but this is the first time that anyone has been ordered to tweet a public apology… 100 times.
A social activist in Malaysia has been ordered to tweet his apology for a defamatory tweet a grand total of 100 times over the course of three days.
The Guardian reports that Fahmi Fadzil tweeted in January that his pregnant friend was mistreated by her employers, a magazine run by BluInc Media.
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