The other Saturday, benevolent friends and strangers informed me that my name was circulating on the Internet for a reason that did not appear to them to be optimal for the proper management of my public image. On the Reddit site, an entry was titled “Lisée follows funny accounts on Instagram. » Followed a screenshot certifying that I was subscribed to the account « Bonjour Pitoune », whose slogan is « Every day, the most beautiful logs ».
The photos posted by said account highlight Quebec women with generous shapes. Their use of fabric is sometimes minimalist, but they remain dressed — at least in the current state of my research.
Internet user FoieGras95 wrote the comment most appreciated by Internet users: “Even when it comes to naughty pages, Lisée chooses a page with a 100% Quebec name. A real real one. Point_5 agrees: “Well, he supports local business. Buying from us to help my reputation, I didn’t ask for so much. A discussion follows on the consequences of this revelation on my career. “I don’t care, writes Trolliantor_and_us. At least [Lisée] assumes itself. ” Deadly Chinchilla adds: “I agree 100%, adult men or women and teenagers have every right to get an eye out for anything other than their partner without it being infidelity. »
I breathe.
Some Internet users thank me for having informed them of the existence of the page, to which they immediately subscribe. “It’s still skinlite,” sneers Cervino_1. Others advise me to use an anonymous screen site in the future and offer me options.
Without in any way wishing to question the quality of the work, the judgment or the life choices of the participants of Bonjour Pitoune, I unsubscribed as soon as I was informed of my subscription. I only occasionally open my Instagram account, but I admit that I have seen some of these Quebec women passing by for some time, wondering which of my subscribers had fun sharing them again.
For decades that I intervene in the public debate, I have always observed the following maxim: if you were embarrassed that your mother reads one of your actions or words in the newspaper, do not do this act, do not hold not about that. My leeway is narrow. My mother had publicly reprimanded me for declaring in 2016 that she wanted the Parti Québécois to form “a crisis of good government”. When in 2018 I wished for the non-re-election of a liberal minister by saying “take this chalice away from us”, she however gave me absolution, declaring to journalists that I was only quoting the Gospels. Thanks Mom.
It is therefore with a heavy heart that I refrain from clicking “like” on any message or photo that could embarrass me, a misunderstanding having happened so quickly. Was I subscribed by the account without my consent? My friend the Internet expert Bruno Guglielminetti sweeps away this hypothesis. “You absolutely have to click on the “subscribe” button on your phone or computer. But hey, he adds, the phone screen being sensitive, a misplaced finger to scroll up and down an account on your screen may have made you like a photo by mistake. But it is certain that it was necessary to have this photo on the screen, or this account, even a few seconds, so that your finger “clings virtually” in the piton. »
So I would have subscribed inadvertently, unconsciously, by Freudian gesture or by irresistible desire to encourage local visual arts?
There remains the hypothesis that a computer hacker has entered my computer to surreptitiously link me to the pitounes. I’m often very harsh in my words and writing with the Chinese and Russian regimes, and I recently wrote a book about spies, people who have more than one cyber trick up their sleeve. But I dare to believe that, if they wanted revenge, they would find something better.
How would I have handled the affair if it had arisen when I was a minister or leader of the PQ? Easy, I decided a long time ago to tell the truth, even when it is implausible, which happens, believe me. I would have said, “I probably made a handling error and as soon as I was notified of the subscription, I unsubscribed.” There. I can see the caricatures from here.
Advisors could, however, have suggested parades. “The political attaché in charge of the account believed that it was about forestry, an essential theme in the region. “Or again:” The frantic search for female candidates is at the origin of this drift. There is also the accusation of having been hacked, impossible to
to verify.
In 2015, we read a strange tweet from the short-lived CAQ candidate and ex-journalist Jocelyne Cazin about Julie Snyder, then spouse of PQ leader Pierre Karl Péladeau. The Péladeau-Snyder couple had come to campaign in the partial where Mme Cazin presented himself. “I’m telling you Julie got the spittoon,” the message read. Error in the recipient of a message to be private? Not at all, explained the candidate: hacking!
The following year, we read “I am Option Nationale” on the Twitter account of MP and candidate for the PQ leadership Martine Ouellet. Bad mood on her part, she who judged her own party to be provincialist? No. Hacking!
The one assigned to a hacker by Stephen Harper’s team in 2013 was particularly harsh. A demonstration by Aboriginal people opposed to the exploitation of shale gas on a claimed territory had degenerated in New Brunswick to the point of setting fire to six RCMP vehicles. The Prime Minister’s tweet read: “Canada is NOT going to give in to these so called ‘First Nations’ and they must decide between being loyal Canadians or facing the full force of Crown authority. An investigation has been announced to find the thug. But almost ten years later, he is still running.
It’s still weird that these hackers limit themselves to a single message and that they are so close to what the account holder really thinks. Or so close to his preferences
sylvan.
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