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The implication is that a rather large chunk of the technology sector - e.g. everything Samsung makes - is now under a very wide blanket of uncertainty.

I had not considered this. You (and others mentioning it) have a point. Though I would still have preferred a more substantial article as submission.

It's breaking news about a topic that came out of the blue for everyone. There isn't the time or knowledge of wtf is going on to write that article.

> It's breaking news about a topic that came out of the blue for everyone.

After having read the two rather strongly opinionated pieces "Amusing ourselves to death" [1] and "Avoid news" [2] they have mostly convinced me that "breaking news" is rarely of value in our everyday life, and I would rather have less of it.

[1] https://ia800101.us.archive.org/27/items/Various_PDFs/NeilPo...

[2]: https://web.archive.org/web/20130117104220if_/http://dobelli...

Anything more "substantial" would likely be speculation.

Martial law being declared in a developed democracy is sufficiently unusual that it works for me.

It says "most", not all.

This seems like evidence of an interesting new phenomenon to me, as the guidelines specify.

Considering there’s a tech industry in South Korea I would like to know how that might affect global markets and industry from that country.

A country that we think of as part of the "democratic club" declaring martial law is a really big deal.

Yeah, it's politics. Yeah, it's news. No, it's not just another political news story.

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