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December 12, 2009 5:10 pm
Will Seppukoo really become Facebook’s killer application?
The news has become the talk of the Internet among bloggers and the artists who actually set up the viral campaign, targeted at everyone who just can’t take social networking anymore, as it becomes clear that this no longer just a joke among friends. The Seppukoo phenomenon would appear to have taken on worrying proportions, leading Facebook to censor all information about Seppukoo on charges of obscenity.
The application launched during the recent Share Festival (and which sees yours truly ranked “top scorer” – points are won for each friend you recruit to join the ranks of over 20,000 other seppukers) is quite clearly doing its job of creating a stir.
Guy McMusker, artistic director of Les Liens Invisible, through his spokesman Clemete Pestelli, has made it known that Facebook is in fact using a disturbing strategy of preventive censorship by blocking all attempts at virtual suicide and stopping users from publishing links to Seppukoo.
Not that any of this comes as a surprise – I for one am certainly not shocked by it. We all knew exactly who we were up against. But now the behemoth has been unmasked and its tactics laid bare for all to see.
more info:
http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5gvEtJR0HtWOe0dsfkHcgvVn4JtuA
http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/technology/2009/12/facebook-strikes-back-against-seppukoo.html
http://digital.asiaone.com/Digital/News/Story/A1Story20091210-185026.html