Topic: Fake Vs. Free Speech
Totage's photo
Fri 02/20/09 02:00 PM
I was reading this interesting article at http://www.sitepoint.com/article/fake-social-networking-profiles/

Do you think fake profiles are free speech or defamation?

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Fri 02/20/09 02:02 PM
All the world's a stage, and all the men and women merely players:







-As you like it.

ljcc1964's photo
Fri 02/20/09 02:03 PM
Neither. They're just deceptive.

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Fri 02/20/09 02:06 PM
Profiles? Hmmmm...never read 'em.

Jess642's photo
Fri 02/20/09 02:07 PM
The freedom of speech about fake boobs is a little more relevant at the moment....grumble

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Fri 02/20/09 02:14 PM

Do you think fake profiles are free speech or defamation?



Can one really "defame" oneself in a voluntarily-created profile, whether it's true or not?

I think of it more as an attempt to portray oneself in the best of all possible lights -- "possible" sometimes encompassing varying degrees of unreality....there's an agenda, and things are said and done and written in the service of that agenda....



PacificStar48's photo
Fri 02/20/09 02:14 PM
I think fake profiles are fraud. Fraud against the advertiser's that pay for the exposure and on sites especially where you pay for membership it is a rip off off your membership fees. What knocks me out is the let you in for free sites that continue to post your profile to members that they know can not talk to you. Wheather they are really telling you the truth when they say you have 100+ messages sounds suspect but I would be really mad if I wrote some one that didn't exist.