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

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.