Everyone can have Facebook now! And some people have it twice.
If you’re reading this in Morocco, here’s a warning. A 26 year-old computer engineer was arrested, and allegedly beaten, for impersonating Prince Moulay Rachid on a Facebook account.
Needing background on this news story, I went straight to my trusted information sources. First, I pulled up the Prince’s Google Images file. I couldn’t help but wonder what was so impressive about his face to fraudulently post it on Facebook. Then I found a timeline of the Prince’s life on Wikipedia: son of a King, studied International Politics, acted as a Diplomat - pretty standard - any Disney prince could have provided that material. Reading on however, I did find that his royal highness was a hero via one extremely unique course. Wikipedia states verbatim: “In 2000 under the brave leadership of Prince Moulay Rachid was founded Hassan II golf Trophy Association.” I sure hope he survived that feat without too bad a handicap.
Joking aside, this is a serious matter. We who grew up during the Internet boom in democratic societies must be careful. We now have the ability to broadcast our jokes to the masses BUT THE MASSES HAVE THE ABILITY TO SEE THEM! It’s not just about taking down that picture of you doing a keg stand so that your boss doesn’t see it. It’s about controlling anything that goes out into cyberspace from your IP address. Cyberspace is border-free but full of citizen-censors.
Of course we can still have fun. There are plenty of safe alternatives to joking on the web - so be clever! If you just HAVE to impersonate someone in Morocco on Facebook, scroll down to the Favorite Quotes section and write:
“Here’s looking at you kid.”
- Humphrey Bogart, Casablanca
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