A Facebooker, Fouad Mourtada, living in Morocco has been sentenced to 3 years jail for putting up a Facebook profile as if it belongs to Moroccan royal family member, i.e. Prince Moulay Rachid, younger brother of King Mohammed VI.Hey, I bet that Prince Moulay would have started maintaining 'his' facebook profile that was created by Fouad Mourtada.
Prince Moulay could have requested his elder brother, the King of Morocco to reduce Fouad's jail term provided that Fouad tells him the log in name and password for the facebook profile.
Now, is your facebook profile reflecting your personal stuff or impersonating someone else? His case was related to "alleged theft of the identity".
Known Moroccan bloggers did something which I was proud of, they suspended their blogging entries for 24 hours in protest. Well done Moroccan bloggers!
As for my Facebook profile, it's basically about me of course. I'm quite lazy in maintaining it. Will respond if someone added me as a friend or received a message. Whoever sends me those poke me here and there or those buy/sell a friend or any other software applications, I would usually ignore it. Maintaining it just to keep contacts with some friends (from primary/secondary schools) besides my church members / office colleagues / bloggers.
Tags: Facebook, Fouad Mourtada, Morocco, Prince Moulay Rachid, King Mohammed VI, Facebook Profile, Moroccan Bloggers
4 comments:
What would have happened if this guy was just a kid?. The punishment is abusive, typical of a country ruled by a "king".
typical dictatorship. easy way wld be deleting that profile if it was really that bad but they found jailing another person satisfying.
One thing for sure, the bloggers there have quite an ammount of power...
Anyway, stealing people's identity regardless of in real life or on the net is somehow wrong immoral.
Damn, they are good to be able to catch someone online and in disguised! How could they ever find this guy in real life unless he put his real address or some crucial information about himself on Facebook.
i think that guy did give himself away one way or another. but IT administrator cld actually detect where u are from your ip address.
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