[Air-L] Jail for Facebook spoof Moroccan

[M. Deanya Lattimore]

I wonder if any of you has ever had someone else create an account of 
you in this way.  I have an online stalker, and he sets up various 
accounts misrepresenting himself as me across the internet.  
Fortunately, he is not computer savvy, so it's been a simple matter of 
reporting them (as I find them) to the webmasters and they are removed.

It's still quite a shock to see my name and picture on some account that 
I never created though.  And I'm more computer-literate than most; I 
wonder how helpless it would feel to encounter one of these if I were 
just starting out on the internet myself.

There's a difference, for sure, between satire and identity theft, but 
it lies on a line of misrepresentation.  Not having seen the page that 
Fouad constructed, I'm not willing to make the judgment call to support 
or condemn him.

Deanya Lattimore
http://www.deanya.com (really me)



Muhammad Abdul-Mageed wrote:
> I think they do understand the variables of the situation, and if not, they could have asked some specialists. I believe the case is that they wanted to punish him so that others do not do the same--"[t]he prosecution had urged the court to impose a sentence which set an example for others", the BBC reports says. I do not think whether we should view Fouad act as anything like identity theft, in the figurative sense, or not, though. In all cases, I believe he should not be jailed for it: he did it for fun, and CMC is in some cases that playful!
>
> --Muhammad
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