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Social networking sites are giving their users the opportunity to influence the attraction they exert on others by creating an online profile and a virtual identity that may in some cases strongly differ from real life. Through the use of social networking sites, users can not only show a multi-faced image of their identity, but they can also play with their personality and construct a new self that is freed from the physical body and an appearance in real life.
Imagine a place where there are no differences among people, everyone is living in a common space where the same language is spoken, borderless communication and free trade is frictionless and the freedom of speech is fully guaranteed. Yes, this could be a sort of paradise and yes, it could have also been the World Wide Web but no – it is neither of them.
Shoot a mosque and you will earn 2000 points, shoot a Muslim calling for prayer and you are another 1000 points ahead! What sounds like a mere disaster in terms of religious intolerance can now be seen online with the “Bye Bye Mosque” game, published by the Austrian right-wing Freedom Party (Freiheitliche Partei Österreich) in the Austrian federal state of Styria. Ever since its release last week, this campaign provoked public outrage and debates about the far-right uninhibitedly spreading religious hatred in the country and its never ending campaigning against Islam.