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Following February's slew of complaints regarding Facebook's Terms of Use amendment, founder Mark Zuckerberg launched an "Open Governance" model and wrote, "If [Facebook] were a country, it would be the sixth most populated country in the world. Our terms aren't just a document that protect our rights; it's the governing document for how the service is used by everyone across the world." Today Facebook redrafted its Statement of Rights and Responsibilities and while users / citizens have until August 18th to comment, we can't help thinking the system is a bogus democracy.

Looking for a good conspiracy theory today? Well here's one: Chris Almond, the administrator of a Facebook group called the Rogue Facebook Apps Early Warning Group just got kicked off the social network. Why did this happen? Did Facebook not like how he was posting details about Facebook malware, hacks, and attacks? Attacks like this recent one that exposed private Facebook profile information just by clicking on a link?

Or was Facebook simply following through on a TOS violation because Chris had accidentally sent out duplicate messages to group members, thereby getting flagged as a spammer and subsequently booted from the network?

Not even two months ago, social news web site Digg.com cleaned house and banned over 80 users for running scripts while on site, including those from Greasemonkey. Digg also banned others for allegedly promoting sites promoting products and services. Now we're getting word that the recommendation engine StumbleUpon may have started a "witchhunt" of their own, banning users of their service for stumbling upon the wrong things. What's worse is that they don't even seem to be responding to emails from the banned users who wanted to know why this happened.