INQUIRER.net: Social network gaffes plague Japanese politicians

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Social network gaffes plague Japanese politicians Jun 20th 2013, 02:40 TOKYO — On the Internet, no one can save you from yourself. That is a lesson many Japanese politicians have learned recently in painful, awkward and at times costly fashion. In the latest flap, a senior reconstruction official in charge of helping victims of the Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear crisis was dismissed last week after he used a scatological insult on Twitter to deride civil activists. Another official's loss of composure at a U.N. committee meeting might have gone unnoticed in another time, but today it's on YouTube. Even Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has been reproached for remarks on Facebook that some deemed disrespectful to his opponents. Japan only began allowing u... Keep on reading: Social network gaffes plague Japanese politicians Media files: japan-social-networking.jpg (image/jpeg)

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