[bravura]

Dr. Moglen: Well you called me, you know what the problem is. People lost their homes. People lose their money. People lose their freedom. (??? -ed.)

Could someone elaborate upon these? I am not aware of these incidents. (In particular, the first two.)

[joezydeco]

There have to be hundreds of social media-related incidents that came up in the middle east during the Arab Spring uprisings. This one came up first on a search:

"Man gets three years in prison for insulting Islam on Facebook"

http://www.jihadwatch.org/2011/10/arab-spring-in-egypt-man-g...

[jonhendry]

And the same result would likely have occurred had he said the same thing on a street corner, or in a pamphlet he handed out at a bus station.

The problem here isn't Facebook, it's the government that he lives under. But Facebook did give him a much larger audience than he might otherwise have had.

[spacemanaki]

"People lost their homes." makes me think he's talking about he housing market collapse, which was partly caused by unscrupulous banks lending to people they shouldn't have. The topic was banks digging up info on Facebook about borrowers... it's not a parallel but it certainly could be discussed in the same breath.

I agree it's a bit obtuse.