Toronto Police on Twitter Would Rather That You Picked Up a
Phone       Stephen Harper is Still Turning Down Your Friend
Request   Government could never have invented something like
social media. Yet, more than anyone else, politicians are
expected to be accountable to the public when using it.  Ottawa
Citizen reporter Glen McGregor was recently inspired — by a
similar Slate monitor of Sarah Palin — to track potential
Facebook comment deletions on the part of Stephen Harper's
squad. And he was rewarded with evidence that many comments
critical of the prime minister didn't last long — although some
remained.  Should there be a federal standard for which
responses are considered acceptable? What if they're attached to
a page that fully verified where the commenter was coming from?
Curiously, there are two different official Facebook pages for
Harper. The more popular one — with over 67,000 followers — is
run by the Conservative party, while a more obscure one is
maintained by the Prime Minister's Office, even