My Formal Goodbye to FaceBook

This, from DemocracyNow! is why:

"And an environmentalist with a long rap sheet for various radical actions has been sentenced to another four months in prison for having an online interaction with another activist. A US district judge in Michigan ruled that Rod Coronado had violated the terms of his parole after he accepted a Facebook friend request from fellow radical activist Mike Roselle. In accepting Roselle’s friend request, Coronado’s action amounted to one click of his computer’s mouse. Coronado was also using what his parole officer called an "unauthorized" computer. "

My question is, "Does it matter about the computer unless it was one that belonged to NSA or the CIA or the FBI?"   As things stand nowadays, don't all computers now belong to them anyway? 


Do you know who you are talking to at any given time in any web based game, or in facebook?  Or who is watching?  Look at ALL the money that is being spent and you can see that it's not possible to have very much privacy.

This from Wikipedia:

"In 2006, while imprisoned for felony conspiracy and awaiting trial on further charges, Coronado expressed a change in his personal philosophy inspired by fatherhood. In an open letter, he wrote, 'Don't ask me how to burn down a building. Ask me how to grow watermelons or how to explain nature to a child," explaining that he wants to be remembered, not as a "man of destruction but [as] a human believer in peace and love for all.' "


People do change over time and experience.

I've never liked Facebook.

And, when Twitter, the little evil twin, was convinced by the government here to not do a scheduled maintenance during the Iranian Protests, Twitter went along with it.  When staging a protest here, activists were arrested for using Twitter.  So,  exactly who is it that is free?