Speaker 1: Did you ever read the tug forums? Did you ever
Speaker 1: go there yourself? A little bit? But I tried not
Speaker 1: to read too much because it was Taboo's friend from Stanford,
Speaker 1: Sean Limb, was living in Korea when the Tajing forums
Speaker 1: started accusing Tableau of lying. He remembers what it felt
Speaker 1: like at the height of the scandal. But what what
Speaker 1: was it like when it was really happening? What was
Speaker 1: going on there? Like you ever been in a room
Speaker 1: of crazy people, Like there's just the energy of it,
Speaker 1: like that weird electricity of people who are volatile and
Speaker 1: you don't know, like if they're going to break things
Speaker 1: or hit you or you're going to get paunched. It
Speaker 1: felt like that in there, Like these people were so
Speaker 1: angry from vice and I heart I'm Dexter Thomas and
Speaker 1: this is authentic. Episode five Consequences. In just three months,
Speaker 1: the tai Jano forum had exploded to more than a
Speaker 1: hundred thousand members. Users were posting daily, sometimes hourly, and
Speaker 1: the crusade had moved offline. Members were finding anyone even
Speaker 1: remotely connected to Tableau and harassing them, trying to find
Speaker 1: information that might prove the Tableau was lying. Tableau's family
Speaker 1: and friends were being docked, and Tableau himself was under
Speaker 1: intense scrutiny, not just from the forum members, but from
Speaker 1: the public. A lot of people, even some of the
Speaker 1: same people who probably enjoyed seeing Tableau on TV. We're
Speaker 1: starting to buy into the theory the Tableau was lying
Speaker 1: about his past. On August two, what becomes Tajanio's Day
Speaker 1: facto leader by this point, wrote this post saying Tableau
Speaker 1: and his family now cannot run away and they are
Speaker 1: broken down. Now we need to strike and smash on
Speaker 1: the back of their heads with a bird stick. Tableau
Speaker 1: says that his label offered to introduce him to a lawyer,
Speaker 1: but he'd have to pay for it himself. He decided
Speaker 1: to leave the label altogether. So now with no backing,
Speaker 1: no manager, no pr rep, Tableau was on his own,
Speaker 1: up against tens of thousands of anonymous forum members who
Speaker 1: were determined to take him down. But it wasn't just
Speaker 1: the Internet. You couldn't even turn on the evening news
Speaker 1: without seeing his name flash across the screen, and people
Speaker 1: were starting to wonder if Tijano was right. It was
Speaker 1: starting to look like an all out war. But it's
Speaker 1: hard to call what Tableau was doing fighting. It was
Speaker 1: more like complying. When Tajo demanded his school documents, he
Speaker 1: released them. When a major news channel said they were
Speaker 1: going to do an investigative documentary and they wanted to
Speaker 1: interview him, he agreed. When the documentary aired in October,
Speaker 1: people watched him cry and try to explain that he
Speaker 1: really did go to Stanford. They also watched Tajeno members
Speaker 1: explain what it was like investigating Tableau. It's like a game.
Speaker 1: It's addictive, it's fun, like being a detective in a
Speaker 1: mystery novel. Some members started calling themselves online players, like
Speaker 1: this whole thing was a video game and the objective
Speaker 1: was to catch Tableau. The media had given Tableau a
Speaker 1: forum to defend himself, but that just added fuel to
Speaker 1: the fire. After that documentary aired, Tajanio membership doubled to
Speaker 1: almost two hundred thousand. Later that same October, the Prosecutor
Speaker 1: General in Korea pushed for the national police to finally
Speaker 1: get answers. But the thing is, the police had already
Speaker 1: been aware of this. Tajen you know members have been
Speaker 1: spamming government websites since August, pushing for law enforcement to
Speaker 1: get involved. This, combined with the growing pressure from the
Speaker 1: public at large, finally got the police to start asking questions.
Speaker 1: So Tableau went and got himself that lawyer because it
Speaker 1: was clear that this was about to get very serious.
Speaker 1: It wasn't about his fame or his music anymore. Tableau
Speaker 1: was now being investigated by the National police for forgery
Speaker 1: of a private document, and Korean law's interpretation of forgery
Speaker 1: is important here because it's not just about, say, the
Speaker 1: financial harm you do to someone if you forge his
Speaker 1: signature on a check. Korean law is extremely concerned about
Speaker 1: the public's ability to trust private documents like contracts or
Speaker 1: bank statements or diplomas. So even if Tableau hadn't used
Speaker 1: his credentials for a job application or anything, the act
Speaker 1: of flaunting a fake diploma around on national television in
Speaker 1: the Korean government size is causing harm to society's trust
Speaker 1: that is punishable by law. If Tableau was found guilty,
Speaker 1: that could land him in prison for up to seven
Speaker 1: and a half years. This is not this is not
Speaker 1: see killer, This is just a cyber deformation. This is
Speaker 1: so in He was an officer in the cyber crime
Speaker 1: unit in South Korea's National police force. He says the
Speaker 1: decision to investigate Tableau was unprecedented in Korea. There had
Speaker 1: been times when the national police got involved in forgery cases,
Speaker 1: but this time the police were intervening in a private
Speaker 1: citizen's life at the behest of an online mob. But
Speaker 1: I got a call from Brugal House at the time,
Speaker 1: so everybody watching these cases. Officers got a call from
Speaker 1: the Blue House, which is the official residence of the
Speaker 1: President of South Korea, kind of like the White House
Speaker 1: in the United States. They let him know that this
Speaker 1: thing needed to be done by the book, no favoritism
Speaker 1: and no delays. I mean, is there any pay just
Speaker 1: to ask me to investigate correctly and finish quickly. I mean,
Speaker 1: just to put it into perspective, picture the White House
Speaker 1: telling the FBI to investigate whether Kanye West really went
Speaker 1: to Chicago University because a bunch of people I read
Speaker 1: it said he didn't, and then personally calling the lead
Speaker 1: investigator to say, hey, you better do this right. It
Speaker 1: wouldn't happen, not just because he's a private citizen. But well,
Speaker 1: like I said in the last episode, who cares if
Speaker 1: a rapper lied about their diploma? Well, in Korea, a
Speaker 1: lot of people cared and like I mentioned, lying about
Speaker 1: your diploma is a crime there. And now it was
Speaker 1: officers suze job to get the answers that the whole
Speaker 1: country was waiting for. Why do you think you were
Speaker 1: chosen for the case? Our producer Stephanie talked to officers,
Speaker 1: so my my bost think I'm the smartest because at
Speaker 1: the time I'm the only one who has a cybersecurity
Speaker 1: degrete and certification. Officers first got into computers in the nineties.
Speaker 1: At first, it was mostly a hobby. He did get
Speaker 1: himself a gig making websites for K pop fan magazines,
Speaker 1: but that wasn't satisfying to him. What he really liked
Speaker 1: was cybersecurity, so we started studying that and in the
Speaker 1: mid two thousands, when Korea's National Police Force announced they
Speaker 1: were looking for cybersecurity experts, he applied and got the job.
Speaker 1: By the time the agency picked up Tableau's case in
Speaker 1: twenty he'd been there for a couple of years and
Speaker 1: he had the most experience in the entire cyber crime unit,
Speaker 1: so it was only natural that the case would go
Speaker 1: to him. On an early September morning, Tableau arrived for
Speaker 1: his scheduled interrogation at the National Police Agency headquarters in Seoul.
Speaker 1: Officers subb spent weeks doing research. He'd collected every document
Speaker 1: he could get his hands on, and he knew he'd
Speaker 1: be able to catch Tableau in any lie. He also
Speaker 1: knew that Taijuanyo and the press would be watching, so
Speaker 1: he had Tableau come on a Sunday when the front
Speaker 1: office was mostly empty and the press was less likely
Speaker 1: to be snooping around, And even then they had him
Speaker 1: come in the rear entrance just in case. Officers saw
Speaker 1: and a couple other investor gators walk Tableau and his
Speaker 1: lawyer into a small office. They all sat down, Tableau
Speaker 1: on one side, Officers on the other. They got right
Speaker 1: into it, no small talk. Officers started off with the
Speaker 1: first line of interrogation pick Korean, English, Chinese, and he's
Speaker 1: one of the biggest parts of Tagos conspiracy hinge on
Speaker 1: how smart Tableau is or isn't. This meant the officers
Speaker 1: would have to test his intelligence, and he figured the
Speaker 1: easiest way to do this would be to compare Tableau's
Speaker 1: actual abilities to the things he'd done on TV. And
Speaker 1: officers had a particular baseline in mind all right, now,
Speaker 1: this is one of the funniest shows. In two thousand seven,
Speaker 1: Tableau went on a variety show where the hosts had
Speaker 1: him play a game It's It's a it's a Korean
Speaker 1: food with Scott. He was pretty simple. The hosts would
Speaker 1: write down some phrases in Korean and then they'd have
Speaker 1: Tableoo described that phrase in all the different languages that
Speaker 1: he said he knew. He does English a lot of
Speaker 1: stuff in it, and French in l a moon or more,
Speaker 1: and Chinese, and on the panel their native English, French
Speaker 1: and Chinese speakers to judge how well he's doing. His
Speaker 1: Chinese is okay and his French is not so hot.
Speaker 1: But everyone sort of makes a joke about it, because,
Speaker 1: after all, this is a game show. The guy who's
Speaker 1: judging Tableau is English. Is this Australian comedian and he's
Speaker 1: got this kind of dry humor and he starts critiquing Tableau.
Speaker 1: There he gives his caveat, saying that lots of Koreans
Speaker 1: who hang out with foreigners probably have the same ability,
Speaker 1: but that all things considered, Tableau speaks pretty good English.
Speaker 1: So he's obviously joking here, and people start laughing because well,
Speaker 1: Tableau speaks perfect English. This wasn't a particularly notable appearance.
Speaker 1: People had seen Tableau speak English before, and he was
Speaker 1: now a regular on TV. A couple of years later, though,
Speaker 1: as the scandal was in full swing, Tajanio had gone
Speaker 1: back to any recording they could find to scrutinize everything
Speaker 1: Tableau said on TV, including this show, searching for any
Speaker 1: evidence of lies. And they didn't think any of this
Speaker 1: language stuff was funny at all. A post by Truth
Speaker 1: is out there on October fift said, overall, his English
Speaker 1: skills are really not good, and it's logical to doubt
Speaker 1: whether he really was able to finish his graduate level
Speaker 1: education and major in English lit. There was so much
Speaker 1: talk on the Tajano forums about Tableau's language skills that
Speaker 1: officers decided this might be an opportunity to catch him
Speaker 1: in a lie. The thing was, tablet was very confident
Speaker 1: about his English ability, but French and Chinese he hadn't
Speaker 1: used those in forever. So they actually had me speak miraculously.
Speaker 1: I just like like speaking in tongues. It came back
Speaker 1: to me for that moment. He looked very smart. I
Speaker 1: mean he didn't probably if his I one up, but
Speaker 1: we know, we knew if he's very smart. They was
Speaker 1: just incredible that they had put in so much time.
Speaker 1: It spanned every like it spanned everything from my transcript,
Speaker 1: my degree, to each member of my family, um, my
Speaker 1: mom's childhood, my dad's childhood, every place they worked at
Speaker 1: moved to every conspiracy theory involving anybody they know, my siblings,
Speaker 1: with my friends I had to verify like kids I
Speaker 1: went to school with, gave dug into like my ex
Speaker 1: girlfriends and stuff like just it was just incredible the
Speaker 1: sheer amount of things I had to talk to the
Speaker 1: police about. The interrogation went on for hours. I think
Speaker 1: it was very deep cold to sit sit a long
Speaker 1: time in those kind of chair, and then I think
Speaker 1: his tires. So sometimes around lunchtime, officers called for a break.
Speaker 1: Everyone stood up and walked out of the room to
Speaker 1: get lunch. Tableau excused himself to go to the bathroom,
Speaker 1: so also had to go, so he followed him. It
Speaker 1: was a tiny bathroom, so it was a little awkward,
Speaker 1: but the interrogation was officially paused until this break was over.
Speaker 1: So opposite, I wasn't gonna say anything to Tableau. He
Speaker 1: was just gonna do his thing and leave. But then
Speaker 1: Tableau looked at him. He told me in the bathroom,
Speaker 1: doesn't this and if I to a side, he has
Speaker 1: the officers. So with this end, if I commit suicide,
Speaker 1: he has kind of intention that you want to commits
Speaker 1: outside to finish the order of stuff. I said that,
Speaker 1: That's what he said, Really, who I remember that? Really?
Speaker 1: Do you remember was there in a point where you
Speaker 1: were thinking about that. It's quite possible that there's uh
Speaker 1: certain things I may have like compartmentalized. I may have
Speaker 1: hidden it away somewhere. I don't know, but I'm genuinely
Speaker 1: shocked that that happened, or that I said that two
Speaker 1: the police. I don't remember like trying to kill myself
Speaker 1: for or like planning it. I don't remember it. I
Speaker 1: just I don't. I mean, like I truly don't remember it.
Speaker 1: Tableau and I hadn't really talked about this time period
Speaker 1: until this point. This was the time that Tableau had
Speaker 1: told me that he was barely leaving his house. Whenever
Speaker 1: I pressed him for more details about his daily life
Speaker 1: back then, what kind of things he was thinking and doing,
Speaker 1: he'd give me this caveat that he doesn't really know
Speaker 1: that anything he's telling me is second hand. And my
Speaker 1: wife tries not to talk about this because this is
Speaker 1: a this is like pain for her as well. She
Speaker 1: did say to me that it wasn't like I was
Speaker 1: completely broken down or anything. It just at times felt
Speaker 1: like I didn't have a soul, almost like that I
Speaker 1: was just I had been hollowed out and I was
Speaker 1: there but not really. She said that, yeah, like it
Speaker 1: was on this stiff my soul had like just disappeared,
Speaker 1: and I was just sort of like doing things like
Speaker 1: on autopilot. I gotta tell you the truth. And honestly,
Speaker 1: at times like I was confused whether or not I
Speaker 1: had dementia. Like I I literally said to myself, did
Speaker 1: I imagine going to Stanford? Like? Did I imagine my
Speaker 1: life before all of this? You seriously thought that, yeah,
Speaker 1: because if the entire world is saying that that's what happened, like,
Speaker 1: how am I supposed to make sense of that? I
Speaker 1: gotta say here that when Tableau first told me he
Speaker 1: didn't remember this period of his life, I was a
Speaker 1: little skeptical. Maybe he didn't want to talk about it,
Speaker 1: or more specifically, maybe he just didn't want to talk
Speaker 1: about it with me. But when I told Tableau about
Speaker 1: him asking the cops for advice about killing himself, the
Speaker 1: look on his face told me immediately that this man
Speaker 1: was not faking. His face dropped. He was shocked. One
Speaker 1: of the few things Tableau had through this entire process
Speaker 1: was the sense of who he was, his sense of self.
Speaker 1: Even as he started to lose his grip on basic
Speaker 1: things like where he lived and what he'd accomplished, he'd
Speaker 1: never lost hold of his core. Not Tableau the rapper
Speaker 1: or Dan the Stanford graduate, but Tableau Daniel Lee, the son,
Speaker 1: the friend, the father, the person who would never ever
Speaker 1: waver in that duty. He'd convinced his family this, and
Speaker 1: maybe more importantly, he'd convinced himself. But in that room
Speaker 1: with me, he found out it wasn't true. He wasn't
Speaker 1: as brave as he told himself he was. And for
Speaker 1: a few seconds, it was like he wasn't looking at
Speaker 1: me anymore. He was kind of looking past me, like
Speaker 1: there was a mirror on the other side of the room,
Speaker 1: and and looking at it, he was realizing how much
Speaker 1: closer to the edge he was then he'd been willing
Speaker 1: to admit to himself in the bathroom. He looks like
Speaker 1: he wanted to cry. Yeah, I charged him because I
Speaker 1: don't know it. You only have to tell me the trust.
Speaker 1: After they took a break, officers said he didn't really
Speaker 1: notice any other sign of emotion from Tableau. When they
Speaker 1: got back to the room and started the questioning again,
Speaker 1: Tableau seemed to snap back into focus. He straight faced
Speaker 1: and just centered on getting through all the questions. In
Speaker 1: the end, the interrogation took about eight hours. Once I
Speaker 1: decided he had gotten everything he could from Tableau, everyone
Speaker 1: went home for the night. The next day started making calls.
Speaker 1: He had to take every statement Tableau made line by
Speaker 1: line and verify if it was true or not. He
Speaker 1: also collected more documents. We have to find if this
Speaker 1: document is facal on us, so we sent this documents
Speaker 1: to other organizations. They sent the important documents to government
Speaker 1: forensics labs for verification. They were not going to let
Speaker 1: anything slip to the cracks. Once they got them back,
Speaker 1: they analyzed everything. The entire process took about a month,
Speaker 1: then getting the finals, and then I kind of had
Speaker 1: a confidence that he graduated the stampo APTI analyzing or
Speaker 1: In October of the police were ready to announce their
Speaker 1: findings at a press conference. They said the Tableau's paperwork
Speaker 1: was all legit. The Tableau's claimed that he graduated from
Speaker 1: Stanford in three and a half years with a bachelor's
Speaker 1: and a master's degree was true. Tableau head never lied.
Speaker 1: Tijanyo was wrong. It should have ended there, but it didn't.
Speaker 1: That's after the break In October, the Korean National Police
Speaker 1: Agency announced it after a thorough investigation, they had found
Speaker 1: no evidence that Tableau had lied about his degree. For
Speaker 1: a lot of people, this announcement was enough. If the
Speaker 1: highest law enforcement agency in the country said he was innocent,
Speaker 1: then maybe Tableau really was who he said he was.
Speaker 1: But now tai Jano had a problem. They had pushed
Speaker 1: hard for an investigation in the Tableau and this was
Speaker 1: not the outcome they wanted. That wasn't the problem, though.
Speaker 1: The police announced they were turning their focus away from
Speaker 1: Tableau and toward the people who were making these posts
Speaker 1: about Tableau. Taijano's request for an investigation backfired in the
Speaker 1: worst possible way. Now they were the target. Why did
Speaker 1: you decide to do that? Why did you decide to
Speaker 1: pursue the Tajo Because we have to investigate every cases
Speaker 1: we got, so I got the post cases from Tajanio side,
Speaker 1: and then so of course I have to do my duty.
Speaker 1: Tableau wanted the police to look into the people who
Speaker 1: had been harassing him in his family for months, and
Speaker 1: his words now held more weight given that he had
Speaker 1: been officially cleared of what the police now considered to
Speaker 1: be bogus charges. His lawyer had already printed out user
Speaker 1: names and screenshots of what he considered to be the
Speaker 1: worst offenders. He handed everything over the police and was
Speaker 1: ready to sue for defamation. In Korea, defamation is a
Speaker 1: crime that's punishable by up to seven years in prison,
Speaker 1: about the same amount of time that Tableau had been
Speaker 1: facing for forgery, and the police took this justice seriously,
Speaker 1: and so this kicked off the investigation into ta Janyo.
Speaker 1: Police had looked into online harassment cases before, but they
Speaker 1: usually didn't go anywhere. Before this, things that happened online
Speaker 1: still kind of felt like they were separate from the
Speaker 1: real world. But Toujanyo was clearly very real, and this
Speaker 1: had been a highly public case, so there was a
Speaker 1: chance that this could go differently. Within hours of the
Speaker 1: police announcing the investigation. Chajano responded on the forum not
Speaker 1: to apologize, but to go on the offensive. On October nine,
Speaker 1: someone with the user name ce dave Lee made a
Speaker 1: new post with all sorts of new accusations against the police.
Speaker 1: It read, the police didn't follow their operating procedure rules.
Speaker 1: It seems suspicious. We urged the police to conduct the
Speaker 1: fair investigation. We were already in the middle of hiring lawyers,
Speaker 1: and we promised to actively react to the investigation. Even
Speaker 1: they told us doing the investigation, we're going to have
Speaker 1: lost against you guys. You guys, Detectiveical not go to Jay.
Speaker 1: They asked cut the subillance coming out to Video Equity
Speaker 1: so that they can use that evidence to fight a
Speaker 1: la go against the police. Detective. So you're kind of
Speaker 1: scared because they are threatened us. It seems like not
Speaker 1: a good idea to harass the police when they're investigating you, right,
Speaker 1: like kep, you kept investigating, Yeah, Officers. Began his investigation
Speaker 1: by trying to track down some of the real names
Speaker 1: of people posting on Tajanio. In order to do this,
Speaker 1: he needed access to the data on Neighbor, the platform
Speaker 1: Tajanio was on because to make an account on Neighbor,
Speaker 1: you used to have to provide a government ID number
Speaker 1: when you signed up, so even if you're publicly anonymous,
Speaker 1: Neighbor knew who you were. But Neighbor wasn't willing to
Speaker 1: just hand over all that personal data for every single member,
Speaker 1: so officers so narrowed it down to a smaller list
Speaker 1: of the really egregious posters and he got a warrant
Speaker 1: for them. Were handed over those addresses and phone numbers,
Speaker 1: and officers started calling people up and pretty quickly new
Speaker 1: form threads started popping up with people nervously talking about
Speaker 1: being called into the police station. Then, just days later,
Speaker 1: tajen Your members logged into their accounts to find that
Speaker 1: the entire tajen Your forum was gone. The police had
Speaker 1: discovered that what becomes the Star of ta Janyo had
Speaker 1: used a fake government I D to sign up for
Speaker 1: his account, and in Korea that is illegal. At this point,
Speaker 1: police wanted all the data, and Neibor agreed to give
Speaker 1: it to them. Sus says he was about to request
Speaker 1: another warrant to get the site shut down, but Neighbor
Speaker 1: did it for them. At this point, Neighbor figured that
Speaker 1: it was in their best interest to comply with the investigation,
Speaker 1: but it was never going to go that easy. A
Speaker 1: few hours later, a new form showed up. This one
Speaker 1: was called naturally ta Janyo two, and people started flooding
Speaker 1: back in. Even some of the old posts were intact
Speaker 1: because a forum member had saved them. This was not
Speaker 1: a shutdown, this was a hiccup in the operation. Ta
Speaker 1: Janyo was back on in full force, but the celebration
Speaker 1: didn't last for long. The police were pulling in members
Speaker 1: one by one for questioning, and of course, the word
Speaker 1: got out if a four member went dark for too long,
Speaker 1: people started wondering if they've been called in and what
Speaker 1: happened to them and who was next. In the span
Speaker 1: of days, the forms moved morphed for righteous euphoria into anger,
Speaker 1: into a slow collective freak out, and they were struggling
Speaker 1: to stay focused. How many user names do you think
Speaker 1: you went through before you started to narrow into the
Speaker 1: people who were worst? More than it took officers months
Speaker 1: to go through all those user names, but by January
Speaker 1: two thousand eleven, he finally narrowed it down to a
Speaker 1: list of people he thought he could charge with an
Speaker 1: actual crime, and how did you decide who was going
Speaker 1: to be the worst of the people who you're going
Speaker 1: to investor? I mean the frequency, how often they post
Speaker 1: pedure and how sedos the contents for without posting, and
Speaker 1: then if this is so to or not. At its height,
Speaker 1: Tanjanio had had around two hundred thousand members, but after
Speaker 1: the shift in public sentiment and the shutdown of the
Speaker 1: original forum, and especially the investigation, the ranks were dropping.
Speaker 1: Tajanio still had tens of thousands of members, but they
Speaker 1: were fighting what was starting to look like a losing battle.
Speaker 1: In January two tho eleven, after three months of interrogating
Speaker 1: Tago members, the police announced the results. Hollow Eleven people
Speaker 1: were being charged with defamation. This announcement happened in January,
Speaker 1: but it would take more than a year to finalize
Speaker 1: everything in court. But before I could go to trial,
Speaker 1: two people came forward and apologized. One person even got
Speaker 1: their family involved. It was a girl and her dad
Speaker 1: showed up to my house. I was like, please, please,
Speaker 1: don't come here. Since Tableau was the person who brought
Speaker 1: the charges, he also had the power to rescind them,
Speaker 1: and I kept telling him to leave and Eventually he did.
Speaker 1: I had the security come up and you know, tell
Speaker 1: him he can't be here. But then as he left,
Speaker 1: you know, like this this father looked like he you know,
Speaker 1: he wasn't doing well in life, you know, and this
Speaker 1: was just another huge problem on his heart. I actually
Speaker 1: ran out and he said that his daughter had been
Speaker 1: struggling with like like skin problems, and um, this like
Speaker 1: drove her crazy, and she like regrets it, but that
Speaker 1: was the reason for her anger. It's just in that moment,
Speaker 1: like the way that person looked, like the way that
Speaker 1: person's father looked, I just you know, I'm fighting this,
Speaker 1: like I'm I'm fighting this person. I let that person
Speaker 1: off the hook. Another person also apologized to Tableau, and
Speaker 1: he agreed to remove them from the prosecution list too.
Speaker 1: The other nine people stood trial for defamation. All of
Speaker 1: them were found guilty. The ones who posted about Tableau's
Speaker 1: family got the harshest sentences. Most of them got probabed,
Speaker 1: but three of them were sentenced to eight to ten
Speaker 1: months in prison. This was a landmark case. Korea already
Speaker 1: had laws on the books against defamation, but it was
Speaker 1: difficult to bring that to an actual conviction. In part
Speaker 1: because the justice system tended to air on the side
Speaker 1: of caution when it came to freedom of speech. But
Speaker 1: attitudes about online harassment had shifted, and Tableau's case was
Speaker 1: extremely public. No other defamation case had gotten this kind
Speaker 1: of attention. This wasn't exactly a win for officers, So
Speaker 1: there was still some unfinished business important the guys. When
Speaker 1: the original Tajanio forum was shut down, what becomes had
Speaker 1: more or less disappeared, but officers so was still looking
Speaker 1: for him. I still remember he used to living in
Speaker 1: the Chicago. I found his name, and I found his
Speaker 1: selfhone number, and I quart he from Korea And what
Speaker 1: did he say? That's next time? Unauthentic. Authentic is a
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