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"
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.
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.