Online Impersonation A Crime In NY?
A man accused of using online aliases to discredit his father’s rivals in a debate over the Dead Sea Scrolls is facing criminal charges in New York. The defendant, Raphael Golb, allegedly impersonated one of his professor dad’s adversaries in the debate. Nice way to make someone look the fool, I guess. He is said to have opened an email account and then sent out “confessions” of wrongdoing in the name of New York University’s Jadaic Studies Chairman Lawrence Schiffman coupled with other shenanigans.
If you have read Google Bomb, you know what I think about this conduct. And at Dozier Internet Law we have to chase the “hard to find and nothing to lose” types all the time.
We’ll follow how this turns out. He has pled not guilty to identity theft, criminal impersonation, and other charges. Oh, and a little more about Raphael Golb. He’s a lawyer. I hope this is a case of mistaken identity and someone was impersonating Mr. Golb.
What is it with impersonators and religion? If he is found guilty, he needs to get some moral and spiritual guidance. I suggest Twitter. Yeah, become a follower of God on Twitter. God has over 30,000 followers now: a lot of them probably started following God after the Dalai Lama’s Twitter account was terminated for impersonation.
