On Tue, 15 Dec 2009 14:27:46 +0000, Ian Jackson
wrote:

In message , Jim Thompson
/Snicker writes
The Government Is Monitoring Facebook And Twitter...

http://newsbusters.org/blogs/noel-sh...rnment-monitor
ing-facebook-twitter

If you were 'The Government", wouldn't you?

Unless it was prohibited, yes.

"The government is increasingly monitoring Facebook, Twitter and other
social networking sites for tax delinquents, copyright infringers and
political protesters."

Fair enough, but surely only the first is a criminal offence, the second
a civil offence, and the third not an offence?

Political protest