Ramsey Khalid Ismael — better known as Johnny Somali, the infamous American streamer arrested in Japan, Israel, and South Korea for his provocative behavior — has been imprisoned in South Korea.
Ramsey Khalid Ismael — better known as Johnny Somali, the infamous American streamer arrested in Japan, Israel, and South Korea for his provocative behavior — has been imprisoned in South Korea.
While I respect that everyone should have freedom of speech and expression, this guy was a complete moron:
Like, my God. “Don’t go shake those venomous snakes. They’ll bite you.” “No way, bro. They won’t even bite. Watch.”
Maybe he was getting legal advice from ChatGPT.
You’re absolutely right!
He did the same shit in Japan and only got deported and banned. He simply assumed Korea would be the same. Good to see Korea don’t play.
He needs to respect the laws of countries he visits. That comes before any expectation of “freedom of speech”. (I refer to speech specifically because a lot of Americans seem to act like their constitution is the gold standard that the entire world should adhere to, but not everyone agrees)
America itself doesn’t even adhere to it.
This is very true. I’ve got business past and present in many countries, and the US is by far the one we have to be the most careful to cover ourselves when dealing with.
What they’ve done is move all the stuff that a lot of countries’ governments would handle impartially through regulation or legislation, made them private civil matters, and called it “Freedom”. This incentivises people to file suits for anything they can think of, and those on the receiving end can end up bankrupted even when the courts rule in their favour.
Especially when it comes to hate speech and inciting violence, etc. Even America has restraints on inciting violence, but other countries definitely restrict things like hate speech, while the conservatives in America just go BUCK WILD with the hate speech and then have meltdowns when private platforms boot them for violating the TOS and they cry about their “free speech” and how “conservative speech” is being restricted, LOL.
It’s weird how conservative speech always needs to involve hate as its core tenet. These assholes are never kicked from these platforms because they were discussing tax policy or deregulating big business.
If he had bothered to read his passport it says plainly that you are subject to all local laws, and that their penalties are probably worse, but the US doesn’t care.
Freedom of speech and expression doesnt mean freedom from consequences
I mean, he does have those things. I think that there is a widespread crisis of understanding of what those freedoms actually entail. To distill it down philosophically, freedom of speech and expression mean that a person with those freedoms can say anything they want and express themselves in any way they like, so long as those actions don’t infringe on the freedoms of anyone else.
There are no main characters, so everyone gets the same rights (for the sake of discussion; I know there are a million caveats here). Any right that everyone gets has to have borders around each individual, or those rights are auto-trampled by everyone else, for everyone.
This guy will have 6 months to reflect and learn that nuance. Let’s see if he does!
I suspect he’ll turn this into another spectacle. I’m more disgusted with social media platforms that continue to monetize his behavior
He’s obviously a sociopath.
I mean, I’m not going to go anywhere foreign and deliberately violate their laws.