Month: November 2015

Facebook Shuts Down Account Of Vietnamese Man Named Phuc Dat Bich

 

An Australian man of Vietnamese descent has had his Facebook account shut down several times because of his name: Phuc Dat Bich. Photo: Facebook
 
Lol! 

Here’s a little comic relief on a Friday! 

This is one of the main reasons that I randomly activate & deactivate my Facebook page. I find it be extremely intrusive & monitored & the fact that they want all your personal info (& your first born) is a little weird for a social media account. I mean one day they will want your social security number. But I digress.

I remember once trying to add ‘Coke’ to my screen name and immediately my “request was “denied”. I remember thinking there must be some nerdy geek Facebook guy trolling screen names?!  Clearly there might be! 

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Via Fox5NY — A Facebook post by a man named Phuc Dat Bich (pronounced “Phoo Da Bic”) has gone viral. The Australian of Vietnamese descent says his account has been shutdown several times by the social media site. The issue appears to be centered on his name.

 
According to Bich, 23, Facebook accuses him of having a “false and misleading” name.

 
Bich even posted a photo of his passport that showed his full name.  

 
Earlier this year, Bich wrote:

 
“I find it highly irritating the fact that nobody seems to believe me when I say that my full legal name is how you see it.”

 
The post went viral Friday after a newspaper in Australia got wind of the issue.

 
Bich appeared to be back on Facebook after he re-posted a link to the article.

Lil Wayne Tour Bus Shooter Sentenced To 10 Years

  
Jimmy Carlton Winfrey pleaded guilty Friday to firing shots at rapper Lil Wayne’s tour buses as they traveled on I-285 in April.

Winfrey, also known as Peewee Roscoe, pleaded guilty to five charges and was sentenced to 20 years, including 10 to serve in prison, according to the Cobb County District Attorney’s Office. Winfrey, who previously worked for the rapper Young Thug, is eligible for parole.

No one was injured on April 26 when multiple shots were fired at two buses traveling on I-285 near I-75, according to Atlanta and Cobb police. About a dozen people were on the buses around 3 a.m. after a performance at the Compound nightclub on Brady Avenue, police previously said. 

It was not known if Lil Wayne, whose real name is Dwayne Carter, was aboard either of the buses.

Winfrey was allegedly driving when he fired the shots from his vehicle, causing more than $20,000 worth of damage to the buses. He allegedly fired the shots to gain “street cred,”.

On May 21, police secured an arrest warrant for Winfrey, charging him with aggravated assault, terroristic threats and acts, criminal damage, possession of a firearm by a felon, criminal gang activity, reckless conduct and discharging a weapon near the street. Then in June, a grand jury indicted Winfrey on 30 counts.

FEATURED POST: Paris Is Not The Only Country We Should Be Mourning For

  
What happened in Paris makes me sick to my stomach. It is terrifying, disturbing, unsettling. It is inhumane treatment of others as well as inhuman, not in character for a rational, feeling, thinking, compassionate human beings. This is not normal and absolutely 100% deserves all of our attention. 

Paris deserves all of the news coverage, social media posts. Facebook profile pictures in the colors of the French flag, prayers and thoughts being sent out from all over the globe. I am not by any means trying to take away from the legitimacy of what happened and how everyone is affected by it. So many lost loved ones or experienced something that they never felt they would in the safety of the western world.

For many children, this will be their 9/11. It will go down in history as one of the most tragic terror attacks to hit a nation, especially a western nation. I do not write this to disagree with any of that. This tragedy breaks my heart as it does yours. But that is just the thing—what I said before, a western nation was hit and the world is ablaze with reactions. But what about Beirut, which suffered two suicide bombings in a Shiite neighborhood that killed over 40 and injured over 230 people. And what about Baghdad? Where over the past day there was a roadside bomb that killed and injured over 20 people and a suicide bombing at a Shiite funeral that killed at least 21 and injured 46.

Oh but these are against Muslims, you say—the same people that everyone lumps together with ISIS in the “safety” of our western bubble. Yet ISIS took responsibility for these attacks just as they did for Paris. Just as they did for the Russian passenger plane that went down, killing the over 200 passengers aboard. Muslims are not ISIS. Islam is not extremism. They are attacking “their own people,” who in no way resemble them, just as they are attacking us, the privileged, westerners who see their entire religion as the enemy.

And ISIS is the enemy. They lack human compassion, what they stand for is outright objectively wrong. Of course it is. So why do we not mourn in the same way for all whom they attack? And what about Israel? And yes, I know, this is where you dismiss me and say “She’s probably just another Jewish girl from a middle-class American family, living in Israel, of course she cares about Israel and this whole article is just to get us to take pity on their situation.”

Well, that’s not true. Yes I’m Jewish. Yes I live in Israel. Yes it sickens me and terrifies me every time there is a stabbing, a car ramming, or a Molotov cocktail that injures another of my fellow Israelis.

But it also sickens me when Israeli forces kill innocent Palestinians because their own ”government,” Hamas, has no compassion for human life and sees its people only as shields. I am not writing this so you take pity on either side in this conflict; they both deserve our sympathy and compassion, for the conflict is a beast that discriminates against no one. And I’m not writing this to make you feel bad about not sympathizing with every single tragedy throughout the world. There are too many to count.

What about Beirut, which suffered two suicide bombings in a Shiite neighborhood that killed over 40 and injured over 230 people. And what about Baghdad? Where over the past day there was a roadside bomb that killed and injured over 20 people and a suicide bombing at a Shiite funeral that killed at least 21 and injured 46.

I’m writing this because I am genuinely perplexed and am trying to make sense of it all.

But it makes no sense. This is senseless violence and hate. And in a way, our reactions are senseless too. So many of you have been to Paris, you know the culture, the sites, you posted pictures today from your trips to the Eifel tower saying how sad it is that this beautiful place is going through this.

But many of you do not know Israel. You do not know Beirut or Baghdad. You do not know Kenya, where a university was attacked in April and 147 were killed, but most of you probably did not even hear about it. I hadn’t heard about it until I sat down to write this.

You write what you know. You express what you feel. You react to what the media shows you. I can’t decide what makes me more angry- the overwhelming response and support to the Paris attacks not being shown to all these other tragedies, or the people who say to stop using it as an excuse to shine light on these other tragedies because if one does this they are taking away from this particular tragedy.

Read the rest of ‘Paris Is Not The Only City We Should Be Mourning For‘ by Jesse Perry on Thought Catalog.