By Jamal Elabiad
What the Zagora delegation of the ministry of education did when it received a copy of the petition from the teacher’s colleagues? This is among the questions I expected my blog readers to ask me to give more details on soon after I posted my article on the teacher who decided to boycott my blog simply because my article on CCP deeply enraged him.
I was, however, shocked to know that the question most of those who commented on the article asked was whether I had the right to base my article on an e-mail I received from the teacher. For them, the e-mail is part of the teacher’s personal life, and, as a result, I should not have posted it on my blog. I do respect your opinion, but I am sorry to say that I strongly disagree with it.
For me, as for others, with the coming of Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube, nothing has remained personal or private. That means everything, I say everything, is shared between netizens on a daily basis. Add to this that the world is no longer as big as it used to be. That’s why it’s safe to say that privacy has become a thing of the past.
Furthermore, it’s noteworthy that WikiLeaks and the afore-mentioned social networking sites did play a pivotal role in the overthrown of the dictators, Zine el-Abbidine Ben Ali and Hosni Mubarak. Think, for example, of what WikiLeaks has published so far about the corruption of the Tunisian president and his family. Needless to say, some of the leaked documents are about the personal life of Zine el-Abbidine Ben Ali and his family, including his wife.
Personally speaking, I every day send e-mails to a large number of people, some of whom are bloggers, and it will be okay for me to know that one of them has written an article based on one of my e-mails. That’s simply because my house isn’t made glass, and it’s only people whose houses are made of glass that still believe in red-lines, including people’s private life.
It’s regrettable that the conclusion I came to after carefully reading their comments was that most of them believe that WikiLeaks founder Jullian Assenge does not have the right to publish the US and its allies’ secret documents. To me, this was not surprising for the reason that many of them are among the fans of the United States around the world and have already benefitted from the cake the US every year gives to Moroccan English teachers!