Fake Facebook Profiles: Can Get You Arrested?

It seems like you cannot make a spoof celebrity profile on a major social network anymore and get away with it. Especially not if you live in Morocco. I just read on Mashable that:

a 26 year-old guy, 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.

Now, 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.

The sad thing is how much one can be punished for making a stupid fake profilein a cyber world. The authorities considered such a joke to be classified as identity theft.

Don’t play games with the cyber world, else you’ll get all of Facebook shut down for your entire country.