Yeah, because IBM has nothing better to do than keep tabs on Second Life
Christ, it's hard to know what's worse - the notion that a significant number of people think that logging onto what amounts to a computer game can equate to physically taking part in a real-life protest, or that apparently Second Life is garnering enough press attention that it might actually work in terms of securing the relevant publicity...
I mean, if this is going to be the next technological paradigm shift - that logging onto a server somewhere which happens to run a virtual environment can be considered equivalent or in some cases even *better* than our actual physical presence - then it's probably time to side with the Luddites.
Christ. This reminds me of an issue of Global Frequency (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_Frequency) where some start-up company turns out to be run by a cultist and they announce that they'll kill a load of hostages unless government forces acknowledged the pandimensional sex gods or some such nonsense, and it has about as much chance of happening...