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Fake Facebook Profile Angers Guyana President

guardian.co.uk — There are hundreds of George Bushes, scores of Fidel Castros, and dozens of Hugo Chávezes, all with prank profiles on the social networking website Facebook, but when someone tried to pass him or herself off as the president of Guyana the real president didn't see the funny side.

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  • fattehboi, on 01/04/2009, -6/+39Hey..if my country sucked and I had nothing better to do...then I'd be pissed too.
  • bodhibay, on 01/04/2009, -4/+22What a baby. He even looks like a big baby.
  • withoutamartyr, on 01/04/2009, -0/+18Facebook is going to bring down the modern world.
  • chick4digg, on 01/04/2009, -1/+19that guy's so gotta chill..
  • jotate, on 01/04/2009, -1/+17He should spend 10 minutes in /b/, just so he can readjust his tolerance for ass-hattery on the internet.
  • Mohdoo, on 01/06/2009, -0/+13This guy would have a heart attack looking through just one page of /b/.
  • inactive, on 01/06/2009, -4/+15Did anyone else have to Google Guyana to figure out where in ***** that is?
  • fxu1989, on 01/06/2009, -2/+12"The public is being asked to ignore this impersonation."

    We couldn't give two ***** about it in the first place, but now that you brought it to light, expect a Streisand effect.

    500 Facebook accounts of Bharrat Jagdeo in 3...2...-nevermind, STILL, nobody gives a *****.
  • inactive, on 01/05/2009, -1/+9When I read this, I just thought out of all the ***** you go through to become the president of a country of almost a million you would've grown a thick skin to searing insults and the like. Aparrently I was wrong. And this guy is full of *****.
  • whatthefu, on 01/06/2009, -0/+8Why you gotta insult Guyana like that?
  • inactive, on 01/06/2009, -0/+8Relax dude, you're not the only one that has been hurt by Facebook. Have some compassion for the mothers who are no longer allowed to upload their breastfeeding photos to Facebook.
  • TheMachine1, on 01/06/2009, -0/+5http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bharrat_Jagdeo

    "Charges of crime, corruption, incompetence, mismanagement and nepotism have been made against Jagdeo's administration, as they have against all former Guyanese administrations. In March 2001, Bharrat Jagdeo won a second term in an election that underscored Guyana's bitter racial tensions. The re-election of Jagdeo, a member of the Indo-Guyanese majority, caused rioting among the minority Afro-Guyanese, who claimed widespread election fraud."

    Sounds like a nice guy not sure why people would make a fake profile of him on Facebook.
  • drifter, on 01/06/2009, -2/+8You know how people get angry when death is involved especially in a murder or suicide. As compared to when people laugh when someone makes an impersonation.

    Yea, pretty sure you're an idiot.
  • crabbypaddy, on 01/06/2009, -0/+6I don't have a facebook profile. Is this normal?
  • WiZZLa, on 01/06/2009, -1/+7No.
  • AmyVernon, on 01/04/2009, -2/+7So, why doesn't he create a real facebook page and take care of it? Sheesh. Welcome to the 21st century, sir.
  • MeatyMcBeef, on 01/06/2009, -0/+4Google Haberdasher. I would like to see an Ass Haberdasher.
  • outoforder, on 01/06/2009, -2/+6So many hypocrites and haters on Digg. I'd be pissed if someone created a Facebook account in my name, too.
  • askantik, on 01/06/2009, -1/+5Yes
  • sdphost, on 01/06/2009, -0/+4And thanks to this now he will have dozens of new profiles.
  • AnonBuffalo, on 01/06/2009, -0/+4So who else just made a facebook page with the name Bharrat Jagdeo?
  • truguyanese, on 01/06/2009, -0/+4damm :(
  • mujahideenryder, on 01/07/2009, -0/+3Guyanese here!
  • iamacyborg, on 01/06/2009, -1/+4Yes, you're right, radu, it's a double standard. Celebrity impersonators get off easier than murderers by proxy. What a stupid world.
  • xxMorrissey, on 01/06/2009, -1/+4Hello there, power-user. Thank you for the dupe.
  • TheMachine1, on 01/06/2009, -0/+3Yeah if you view the penal code pedantically its the same. I made an analogy before on Digg of an "employee only" door in the back of a store and how you are technically trespassing if you go in it. Your not likely to be arrested if you accidentally walk in such a door. But if you damage the place you likely will be. In the case of the Myspace situation the women made a mess and a young girl tripped and broke her neck. In the Presidents case peoples right to parody and protest a political leader likely trumps the trespassing violation. The person walked into the "employee only" door and left a poster that said the store mangers sucks and left.

    I do not know the president of Guyana either. But all political leaders have opposition.
  • TheMachine1, on 01/06/2009, -0/+3Thats right if you damage stuff. The Myspace women caused damage. The protester caused no damage he taped a poster to the wall. The prosecutor chose to selectively charge the women with the lesser crime of trespassing because they could get an easy conviction.
  • TheMachine1, on 01/06/2009, -0/+3Public personalities are usually narcissistic people looking for praise for the "good" they do. But naturally there is going to be negative feedback for the "bad" they do.

    A 13 year old girl trying to find a boyfriend on Myspace is not a public personality and should not be expected to have as tough skin as some typical slime ball politician. The "lady" that lied to the girl is closer in mind set to the president of Guyana.
  • iamacyborg, on 01/06/2009, -0/+3It's all fun and games until someone launches an ICBM!
  • iamacyborg, on 01/06/2009, -0/+3Signed.... you. You?

    You who?

    Yoo.... who... yoo .... hoo...

    You Hoo!???

    Are you coming on to me???
  • sanriver12, on 01/07/2009, -0/+2just the americans i guess
  • inc595, on 01/06/2009, -0/+2The dude who did it should hope he doesn't end up like that guy from Morocco. Three year for a fake profile jeez... Good thing that's protected under the first amendment in the US.
  • twiztidsinz, on 01/06/2009, -0/+2I wish all people who looked at a page of /b/ had a heart attack....
  • twiztidsinz, on 01/06/2009, -1/+3I'm not your buddy, Guyana...
  • x00x, on 01/06/2009, -0/+2
    Ya' think? If you read through the entire article you would have seen somebody in Morocco in need to chill much more so.

    Last paragraph in story.
    When a computer programmer in Morocco set up a bogus profile of the brother of Morocco's king, Mohammed VI, he was jailed for three years.
  • inactive, on 01/06/2009, -2/+4G..u..y..a..n..a?
  • inactive, on 01/06/2009, -0/+2A quote from the movie "Bananas" seems appropriate: "Oh, we find the rebels. We find the rebels"
  • Cannonballkid, on 01/06/2009, -1/+3He's angry because he pokes girls and they didn't respond. So now it's not "his" profile it' was an impostor the whole time!
  • inactive, on 01/06/2009, -0/+2ever played Rise of Nations?
  • TheMachine1, on 01/06/2009, -0/+2He maybe a great leader. Though the fact he is worried about a Facebook profile makes me wonder. Anyway even great leaders have legit opposition. A person making a phony profile of a political leader on a website is not a crime in my book its political protest. If I'm on a jury no ones going to jail for it anyway.
  • existentialduck, on 01/07/2009, -0/+2WOW..this story was submitted TWO DAYS EARLIER...
    http://digg.com/tech_news/Guyana_leader_in_Faceboo ...
    thanks a lot
  • radu79, on 01/06/2009, -1/+3My point is that if you damage stuff you are charged for damaging (vandalism), not for trespassing. That lady was charged for breaking a ToS, not for damaging/endangering/killing/stalking that girl.
    People here think that it is OK to arbitrarily apply the law only when it is convenient, and I think that's unfair.
  • 2Deluxe, on 01/06/2009, -0/+2Dugg for 'haberdasher'.
  • radu79, on 01/06/2009, -4/+5You know, its funny that when that lady who 'caused' the suicide of that 13 yo girl on myspace was prosecuted for breaking the MySpace TOS, most of the digg users were like: OMFG, burn that bitch!
    But when someone impersonates some president on facebook (by breaking the same ToS) it is not only OK, but even cool.
  • DIGGorTHREAT, on 01/07/2009, -0/+1Guyana - omfg ;) who cares about the pr campaign
  • theelfman, on 01/06/2009, -0/+1Take it form a Guyanese, that you should give him the benefit of the doubt, since every time an Indo-Guyanese, or White president has been elected there has been widespread rioting n claims of election fraud across the country. Oh yea, we've had a white president, a Jewish American to be exact, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Janet_Jagan. The riots that happened when she was elected was the worse ever. Also, remember Jim Jones, and Jonestown? That was us.
  • SpectreFire, on 01/06/2009, -1/+2Who?
  • ShadowXiv, on 01/06/2009, -0/+1I'm sorry If your feelings were hurt. But I was simply making a point. You don't have to go on the offensive everytime your ego is bruised. Better yet take your ego out of the equation. I was not coming on to you, the "You" simply represents the moron who ignores logic and reason. IE Its me speaking for you and I could be wrong unless I'm right about "You"
  • dasdef, on 01/06/2009, -1/+2is it weird that i know guyanese people? OMG.
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