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Article: Prosecutors impose travel ban on Internet users over alleged blackmail.
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- YON - Yonhap News Agency of Korea
- Article date:
- July 9, 2008
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SEOUL, July 8 (Yonhap) -- Prosecutors on Tuesday imposed a travel ban on dozens of Internet users who allegedly campaigned for a boycott of companies advertising in newspapers with pro-government coverage on the U.S. beef import issue.The conservative dailies -- the Chosun Ilbo, the Joong-Ang Ilbo and the Dong-A Ilbo -- have criticized the candlelight protest movement against U.S. beef imports while their less influential rivals support the demonstrations. The three papers hold a combined 62 percent share of the market.Internet users bombarded companies who run ads in the three dailies with online messages and telephone calls, threatening to boycott their products ...