[Air-L] Jail for Facebook spoof Moroccan

[Muhammad Abdul-Mageed]

I agree with you and I would feel almost the same if anybody acts under my name. However, I will not be able asking to punish whoever does it in a manner that sets an example for others! I will not hegemonize people in that way. I think that in the Moroccan case, there is much sense of personal pride and royalty! Fouad may be 'wrong', but there is that illusion that the governing people are better than the rest, which I personally do not like. Perhaps that is why I sympathize with the guy.

--Muhammad

"M. Deanya Lattimore" <mdlattim at syr.edu> wrote: 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!
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> --Muhammad
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Muhammad Abdul-Mageed,
PhD Student
Dept. of Linguistics,
Indiana University, Bloomington,
USA
www.mumageed.blogspot.com

       
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