April 3rd, 2008
Mattoon teens charged after creating fake MySpace page for teacher:
Three teens from Mattoon High School in Illinois have been given disorderly conduct citations for making a fake derogatory MySpace about one of their teachers. Before everyone starts the weeping and gnashing of teeth that means they were given a ticket.
Anyway local police found the three […]
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March 20th, 2008
Moroccan king pardons man convicted of usurping prince’s identity on Facebook:
I’ve posted about Fouad Mourtada before. He was the 26-year-old from Morroco who was imprisoned for making a fake Facebook profile of a Moroccan prince.
Luckily Morocco’s King Mohammed has pardoned Mourtada along with 565 other pardons.
The official says the pardon is one of 566 […]
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February 29th, 2008
Facebook Denies Role in Morocco Arrest:
Facebook is claiming that they gave no information to the Moroccan government as to the identity of Fouad Mourtada. Mourtada was jailed for three years for making a fake Facebook of a Moroccan prince.
Brandee Barker, a Facebook spokewoman, said in a statement that the company’s privacy policy and terms of […]
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February 29th, 2008
Moroccan Bloggers Protest Jailing for Facebook Prank:
Bloggers in Morocco are up in arms about the jailing of Fouad Mourtada. Mourtada is the man who was sentenced to 3 years in prison for making a Facebook profile that imitated Prince Moulay Rachid. As far as I know it wasn’t a parody but rather a tribute to […]
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February 26th, 2008
Moroccan jailed for royal Facebook ‘joke’:
This is a story for all those people who complain about free speech rights being violated when their precious little snowflakes get disciplined for making libelous fake MySpaces of people.
In Morocco 27-year-old computer engineer Fouad Mourtada was sentenced to 3 years in prison for making a fake Facebook of King […]
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February 22nd, 2008
Teen MySpace Hoaxer’s Lament:
An unnamed 13-year-old from Ohio was expelled from Hillside Middle School in Parma, Ohio after he created a fake MySpace of Hillside Middle School Principal Jeff Cook.
The MySpace profile, which was headlined “Your Princeypal,” did not carry Cook’s name, but it included his photo and identified him as the Hillside Middle School […]
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February 9th, 2008
Judge: MySpace charges stand:
A Pennsylvania Judge refused to dismiss charges against Kevin Andrew Burd. Burd is accused of setting up a racist MySpace under another teen’s name.
Burd has been charged with identity theft, reckless endangerment, harassment and disorderly conduct, and for being an all around assclown. Ok, I made that last part up.
Burd is […]
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June 2nd, 2007
Teen charged for posting nude photos of girl on MySpace:
A 14-year-old boy from Uniontown,Pennsylvania was arrested on charges of sexual abuse of children, identity theft and harassment after posting a nude pic of a 15-year-old girl on MySpace. The kid received the picture on his cell phone then posted the pic on MySpace pretending to […]
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April 9th, 2007
Pa. principal sues former students over fake MySpace profiles:
The other day I posted about Eric W. Trosch and the lawsuit he was filing against some students in regards to some fake MySpaces that were made about him. This recent article explains what exactly was on those fakes…
According to the suit, which seeks unspecified punitive damages, […]
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April 5th, 2007
Principal sues 4 ex-students over profiles on Myspace:
I apologize in advance because this post is going to be full of snark.
A middle school principal in Pennsylvania is suing four former students over a string of MySpaces that allegedly humiliated the principal.
The Hermitage Middle School principal has sued four former students over “demeaning” and “demoralizing” Myspace.com […]
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February 25th, 2007
Fake Shawn works MySpace:
Apparently some jackass thought it would be funny to post a fake MySpace of kidnap victim Shawn Hornbeck. For those of you in subterranean mineral dwelling (that’s the PC term for living under a rock) Shawn Hornbeck was the kidnapped, held captive, and sexually assaulted for 4-years by scumbag Michael J Devlin.
“Their […]
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February 21st, 2007
Police Arrest H.S. Sophomore Over Bogus MySpace Page:
A 15-year-old from Poteet High School in Mesquite, Texas was arrested after posting a fake MySpace of one of his teachers. He used his science teacher’s yearbook photo and then posted derogatory comments about the teacher. The police didn’t think it was that funny.
When Mesquite police notified MySpace […]
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February 14th, 2007
Lawsuits Filed After Students Create Fake MySpace Page About Assistant Principal:
Back in September I posted about Assistant Principal Anna Draker of Clark High School in San Antonio, Texas. She sued not only the students bit also the parents of the students who made a fake MySpace of her. According to the first article the MySpace […]
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February 11th, 2007
Lawrence officers dismissed for lurid Myspace page:
The other day I posted about the “unofficial” Lawrence, Mass. PD MySpace. When I posted that I said that if it turns out that members of the Lawrence PD made that MySpace that they would be so fired. It turns out I was right.
Two auxiliary officers from the Lawrence […]
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February 8th, 2007
Authorities seek creator of fake Lawrence Police Department Web site:
Some assclowns from Lawrence Massachusetts thought it would be funny if they set up an “unofficial” MySpace of the Lawrence Police Dept. complete with porn chicks dressed as police along with the official insignia of the Lawrence PD. As expected the real Lawrence PD is pissed […]
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