The Facebook Oversight Board is accountability cosplay, and treating it (or its decisions) seriously advances Facebook's goals of being a law unto itself. The fact that lawyers dominate the discussion around Facebook policies exacerbates the problem of lending false legitimacy
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In unrelated news, the Pinboard Oversight Board (my mom) has decided I should have a raise in 2021, and once again named me Employee of the Month
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Large tech companies flood the zone when it comes to funding major philanthropic foundations, especially around open society and journalism. A lot of the people commenting on the Oversight Board today have an unhealthy (if indirect) financial stake in perpetuating the status quo
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Preferably fire people into the sun
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The exercising sovereign power in perpetuity thing seems complete right in general, but this particular instance seems more to me like politicians trying to fob off a loser issue on a blue ribbon commission of the Wise, and having it boomerang back to hit them in the arse.
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Not that I am particularly enthused to see what kind of internal cod-jurisprudence Facebook comes up with in response, mind you ...
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