After a month of working with lawyers as well as administrators of League of Legends forums in Korea, T1 officially filed a lawsuit to protect Faker.
A month ago, Faker became a fiercely attacked name in the Korean LoL community. Even T1’s lawyer had to contact forums (such as DCInside) to ask to delete posts aimed at Faker, and ask the administrator of this forum to provide information (commenting accounts). for the purpose of working with the court. This incident has attracted many international League of Legends gamers for a long time.
Faker has received a lot of insults and public insults, especially after returning from MSI 2022.
Up to today, “APEX Law LLC has filed on behalf of Faker, a member of T1’s League of Legends team, a lawsuit(s) against those who made malicious, negative comments against Faker under Article 311 of the Criminal Act. “
Image of T1 working with APEX Law LLC and filing a lawsuit to defend Faker.
Accordingly, those who have publicly insulted Faker on social networking platforms may “be punished by imprisonment or detention for not more than 1 year, or by a fine of not more than 2 million Won (about 35 million VND)”.
Article 311 of the Korean Criminal Code.
Although the developments and results of this lawsuit are unknown, many gamers commented that the impact of the lawsuit will limit the insults aimed at Faker as well as many other Esports players in Korea.
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