SEVENTEEN's side "Even if malicious comments are deleted, there is no agreement or leniency"

 

Group Seventeen (S.Coups, Jeonghan, Joshua, Jun, Hoshi, Wonwoo, Woozi, The8, Mingyu, DK, Seungkwan, Vernon, Dino) warned that even if malicious comments are written and deleted immediately, they could be subject to prosecution.

SEVENTEEN's agency, Pledis Entertainment, announced on the 29th, 'Guidelines on the progress of legal responses related to artist rights violations', "regular legal action against authors of malicious posts containing defamation, insults, sexual harassment, false facts, malicious slander, etc. against SEVENTEEN. We are taking action,” he said.

Pledis said, "It goes beyond the simple expression of opinions in communities, blogs, and SNS, etc., and is charged with defamation (Act on Promotion of Information and Communications Network Utilization and Information Protection, etc.) Article 70) and insults (Article 311 of the Criminal Act), etc.

In particular, Pledis said, "The subjects of this complaint include users who wrote posts without logging in, and even if they were deleted immediately after writing to avoid leaving evidence, the posts were collected through real-time monitoring and delivered to the investigation agency."

Pledis said, "We ask for your understanding that it is difficult to disclose the specific process or progress in order to secure the identity of the suspect and maintain the confidentiality of the investigation. If we do, we plan to take more severe and strong measures. In addition "

Pledis said, "I am always grateful to the fans for their love and devotion to Seventeen."