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There are places where it's a criminal offense to go deface some person's facebook?

First reaction: AWESOME. I won't see any spam about that in the feed (which I rarely view anyway).

Second thought: This cannot end well. It's so easy to spoof stuff that a lot of innocent people will have to deal with similar situations before the law gets repealed (if it gets repealed, most likely it'd just stop being enforced).

Unfortunately, most people would never think about how bad it could end, just about how people won't be annoying them on facebook.



There are places where it's a criminal offense to go deface some person's facebook?

I think you'll find that to be the case anywhere that has laws about "computer crimes" - the laws are usually phrased as gaining access to or manipulating systems or data for which you have no authorisation.




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