The unusual site banners are to bring attention to the fact that Labour activists in Bexley are manipulating Facebook Groups with fictional posters. They deny it, threaten police action for ‘harassing’ a fictitious character and then demonstrate their willingness to impersonate by creating a false Administrator account in my name. The banner on display is chosen randomly from a selection of three, with a fourth bearing the familiar Bexley Council is Bonkers logo.
26 April (Part 1) - Council twit?
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appeared on Twitter last weekend; the third time I or the blog have been
impersonated on the net, but I wasn’t convinced it had been done with malice in mind.
However those who know Twitter far better than I do say this new user is
systematically going through other people’s more scurrilous Tweets, 'favouriting’
them, which I take to mean giving endorsements in what is in effect my name.
What was a recipe for confusion looks as though it could turn nastier.
Whilst I see no direct evidence, others are speculating that it is the work of
a Bexley councillor - they have form for it.
Twitter’s Terms & Conditions allow a lot of freedoms but impersonation isn’t one
of them; I therefore went through their ‘report impersonation’ routine providing
proof that the domain name shown belongs to me. Twitter emailed acceptance of
the complaint and asked me to FAX a scan of my passport to a number in the USA.
This I did via an on-line FAX sending facility.
How long that will take to process I do not know, but at least the complaint
went in within a few days and not the six or seven months the police waited
before contacting Google over the obscene malcolmknight.blogspot which someone
at Bexley council must have known all about.