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FACEBOOK USERS UNDER REGIME OF AZERBAIJAN: IMPOSED "LIKE'S" FOR ILHAM ALIYEV
19:03 06/02/2013 " SOCIETY
Employees of the Ministry of Economic Development of Azerbaijan
are forced to put "Like" to the official website of the President of
Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev in the social network of Facebook, said senior
official of the ministry in the interview with the newspaper "Azadlyg".
Everyone who has put "Like" to webpage of Ilham Aliyev is obliged
to report to the Department of the Ministry of Internal Control. The
latter, in the general list, puts a tick next to the name of the one
who has "liked". As a proof the ministry official opens his personal
Facebook page and demonstrates the "like" to the employees of the
internal control.
According to the source, a similar situation exists in other
governmental institutions as well: "We were told that this is an
instruction "from above." The aim is clear, everything is designed for
the electoral frauds. That is, as soon as the results of the vote will
be falsified, a campaign of "Likes" will start and they will show the
international organizations that the president has electoral support
even in the Facebook," the source stated.
The newspaper reminds that this is not the first case that the
government interference in the vote in the Internet. Recently, in
the Facebook was held a vote on presidential candidates' popularity
in the upcoming elections to be held in fall. In the result of the
vote the supporters of the candidate of the Popular Front Party of
Azerbaijan Ali Kerimli found out that on weekends people almost do
not vote for Ilham Aliyev, but on the workdays, the amount of votes
increase dramatically. After some time it turned out that the leaders
of the budget organizations force their employees to vote for the
current president, Ilham Aliyev.
Source: Panorama.am
19:03 06/02/2013 " SOCIETY
Employees of the Ministry of Economic Development of Azerbaijan
are forced to put "Like" to the official website of the President of
Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev in the social network of Facebook, said senior
official of the ministry in the interview with the newspaper "Azadlyg".
Everyone who has put "Like" to webpage of Ilham Aliyev is obliged
to report to the Department of the Ministry of Internal Control. The
latter, in the general list, puts a tick next to the name of the one
who has "liked". As a proof the ministry official opens his personal
Facebook page and demonstrates the "like" to the employees of the
internal control.
According to the source, a similar situation exists in other
governmental institutions as well: "We were told that this is an
instruction "from above." The aim is clear, everything is designed for
the electoral frauds. That is, as soon as the results of the vote will
be falsified, a campaign of "Likes" will start and they will show the
international organizations that the president has electoral support
even in the Facebook," the source stated.
The newspaper reminds that this is not the first case that the
government interference in the vote in the Internet. Recently, in
the Facebook was held a vote on presidential candidates' popularity
in the upcoming elections to be held in fall. In the result of the
vote the supporters of the candidate of the Popular Front Party of
Azerbaijan Ali Kerimli found out that on weekends people almost do
not vote for Ilham Aliyev, but on the workdays, the amount of votes
increase dramatically. After some time it turned out that the leaders
of the budget organizations force their employees to vote for the
current president, Ilham Aliyev.
Source: Panorama.am