TVB employee suspected of spreading online remarks attacking advertisers arrested for “inciting others to commit criminal damage”
TVB員工疑網上散佈攻擊廣告商言論 涉「煽惑他人刑事毀壞」被捕
Police arrested a 25-year-old local man this morning on suspicion of repeatedly posting remarks on online discussion forums since the middle of last year inciting others to commit criminal damage, including damaging MTR facilities, setting fire to equipment belonging to a television station, harassing or attacking the station’s artistes, and threatening clients to stop placing advertisements with the station. Senior Inspector Fan Chun-ye of the Cyber Security and Technology Crime Bureau stressed that freedom of speech is not absolute: “Although the online world offers a certain degree of anonymity, that does not mean we law enforcement officers have no means of taking action.”
警方今早拘捕一名25歲本地男子，涉於去年中開始，在網上討論區多次散佈煽動他人作刑事毀壞的言論，包括破壞港鐵設施、放火燒毀某電視台的器材、滋擾或攻擊該電視台的藝人、威逼客戶停止在電視台刊登廣告等。網絡安全及科技罪案調查科總督察范俊業強調，言論自由並非絕對，「雖然網上世界有一定隱閉性，但唔代表我哋執法人員無計可施」。