There are countries where people go to jail over Facebook or Twitter comments and even just using it could be triggering some arcane investigation against you.

There are countries where people go to jail over Facebook or Twitter comments and even just using it could be triggering some arcane investigation against you. Also Iran (likely others) did try to inject tracking JS in plain HTTP and they got the ability for a while to have valid certs so HTTPS is not really helping if you are not really paranoid with certs and hashes that is really difficult to archive. Once you got Tor running and connect to an onion you have quite a few guarantees that are hard to circumvent/spy on for a government. > by that I mean you think people are planning terrorist plots over facebook? come on. It sure has likely happened. Due to Facebook only access (internet.org) for a lot of the world using mobile and Facebook is the only access to internet that is affordable. Online shopping is also handled over Facebook in these countries. While Facebook shares your data with courts it has no way of knowing who you are if you are using Tor. At least it can't forward your location to the local secret service to beat you up. A somewhat qualified court request from a western country is also something different than arbitrary repression from dictatorships.