[Air-L] Jail for Facebook spoof Moroccan

[Julian Hopkins]

This might interest some people. 

Jail for Facebook spoof Moroccan 

A Moroccan computer engineer has been sentenced to three years in jail for
setting up a Facebook profile in the name of a member of the royal family...
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/7258950.stm


There's also a website set up with a petition and more information about the
case: http://www.helpfouad.com/ 

There are some mitigating factors stated, one of which is interesting: 
"La police marocaine ne comprend absolument rien à Internet. Il est demandé
à Fouad dans un des paragraphes pour quelle raison avait-il créé le site
Facebook ?"
(Translation: "The Moroccan police understands absolutely nothing about the
internet. It is asked of Fouad in one of the paragraphs [of the charge
sheet] for what reason had he created the Facebook site?")

Cheers,

Julian



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