Short and sweet,

beware of Twitter.

It allows any1 to abuse your identity.

I have been busy and frankly a user of

Twitter w/a following as well.

Friday night, Countdown's Keith Obermann

declared an imposter was using his likeness

to fool 13,000+ followers into believing

the imposter was him even after he contacted Twitter.

I have blogged on Facebook as well

encouraging bloggers to barage Twitter in protest since what happened to Olberman

can just as easily happen to any blogger.

Like I blogged on Facebook,

"Imagine if someone posted your grad or wedding pic's from the NET or university year book

then set up an account claiming to be you,

then posted it maliciously on porn sites,

wrote malicious things about you such as

untrue sexual preferences, who you were dating,

political affiliations, memberships, if u smoked other than cigarettes

in a day where employers actually

check out blogs?"

Whoa, that's why I am raising Cain!

Bloggers and individuals have rights to their privacy and the protections of blog sites

when notified by individual that their

identity is being misrepresented without their permission even if they are a celebrity,

then the creators/owners of site bear

equal responsibility if not face

tort charges such as in the case

of Carol Burnett vs The Enquirer.

Guess what it is the same.

Why, because the Enquirer knew it defamed Ms Burnett, and so does Twitter since clearly

Olbermann never signed over rights of the use of his image or personna to any one

and what is being done is malicious impersonation and Twitter knows it.

Now, there are those who clearly identify themselves as spoofs by including

'notSuperman'

for example in their blog names.

For me, I believe bloggers should have a blogger's Bill of Rights/Conduct code

prohibiting the deliberate malicious use of an actual person to the detriment of that person be they a private person like most bloggers or a public individual.

I notified the nation's universities fraters/sorors I have on Facebook. There are hundreds informing them of this encouraging protesting this site.

Hopefully, a student nation wide smack down will provide bloggers with rights

we as bloggers don't have while

protecting an individual's identity from being

used in an unauthorized way.

Yes, if a site fails to 'do the right thing'

and not act like

TWITS

then bloggers should jump ship

guess where the revenue would come from then?

The ethernet?

Equally, no one individual or political group s/b allowed to ban a person from forums

unless the blogger first is informed of the accusation by whom and why so they

can respond instead of letting some nebulous minders ban them from forums.

Populace power is a powerful force

that when harnessed can force changes even to blog sites, any and all blog sites.

I love to have the news talk about this issue since this affects all bloggers.

Like I said fellow bloggers,

we can fight back purely by leaving enmasse

thus having a chilling affect on site's revenues.

Comprehende?!

Right!

Bloggin is a two way street.

We bring our opinions that should not be censured regarding a topic, and advertisers seeking to sell us their wares while the site gets paid.

Therefore we should be respected as revenue streamers, and a person's identity should never be compromised for malicious or pranked reasons without written permission such that when contacted, the account s/b changed with all streams changed or deleted.

Comment if you want!