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"Make a spoof celebrity profile on a major social network lately?  Well, don't.  Not if you live in Morocco, at least.  26 year-old Fouad Mourtada, an IT engineer, has been arrested for making a fake Facebook profile for Prince Moulay Rachid, the younger brother of King Mohammed VI, according to FaceReviews.  \nNow, there's one trend around the world that has been made blatantly obvious to me: most countries with monarchies don't like when you poke fun at the royal family.  While the fake profile was done in jest, the prank landed Mourtada in jail.  He's now facing up to 5 years in prison, and that's no fun.  It's certainly not worth a fake Facebook profile.  \nThe sad thing is how much one can be punished for making a stupid fake profile on an intangible, web-based social network.  The authorities considered such a joke to be classified as identity theft, and don't find the situation funny in the slightest.  I mean, how many times have you come across a fake profile for Paris Hilton, or Rupert Murdoch?  Thank goodness Forbes didn't take Daniel Lyons, the man behind the Fake Steve Jobs blog, too seriously.  Sheez.  \nAll I can say is, if you're the least bit worried about being arrested and prosecuted for making a fake Facebook profile for a member of the royal family, just make a Facebook group or a wiki instead.  At the most, you'll get all of Facebook shut down for your entire country.\n[image via FaceReviews]"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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