Thursday, June 2, 2011

Man is forced to apologize 100 times on Twitter


Anyone who watched the Simpsons at some point in life (everyone) knows very well that, at the opening of the show, Bart must repeat the same phrase several times on the chalkboard. It's punishment. In modern times, however, a Malaysian man is being forced to repeat the same phrase on Twitter as a way of apologizing.


Fahmi Fadzil (@ fahmi_fadzil) wrote in January on Twitter that a pregnant girlfriend had been mistreated by bosses in a magazine published by the company BluInc Media. The more than 4,000 followers saw him the message, which was followed by an apology for the comment. Not avail.

The BluInc Media was behind the Malaysian to negotiate a public retraction. The courts were not involved in the case, and ultimately committed to tweet Fadzil 100 times that defamed the company in question.


Apology is republished in the range of approximately 1 hour
"I slurred the BluInc Media & Women Magazine. My tweets on their human resources policies are not true. I take those words and, through this, I apologize. "That is the phrase that republishing Fadzil is from time to time. The Twitter user to put a counter to indicate which number is the excuse. At the time of publication of this text, he asked for 34 other excuses and owed ​​66.

Interestingly, the tweets are in English. The language to be accepted in Malaysia, but is not considered the official language of the country.