11/06/2008

facebooks deletes your political privacy

People seem to think that with the virtual possibilities of the web and social media, the offline problems in the real world with showing clearly your political ideas under your own full name (with your pic) can land you sometimes in trouble. Things you maybe can't foresee and didn't think about when you made the decision to come public with your opinions or interests under youw own fill name.

Take for example the list of friends of Marie-Rose Morel of Vlaams Belang, a seratist and anti-islamic very right wing populist and by most also seen as racist party. Even if they have representatives and a party structure and so on, are you sure you must write your own name in full public view as friends or let me say it otherwise. You have a public full right of opinion and speech and all that you want and we will be the first to defend that. But between the theoretical rights and the practical consequences of coming out for your opinions is a big difference. The difference that makes that this blog and some of its informers are semi-anonymous.

A Google nowadays makes much clear about somebody

and what if you have someone else with another identical real/fake name

http://www.facebook.com/friends/?id=1338180324 friend of Vlaams Belang leader

http://www.facebook.com/friends/?id=1499113359 not

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