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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The Lawfare crowd is too ready to have a body of Oversight Board jurisprudence to analyze and [lady]beard-stroke over, as if this entity were a branch of government rather than an attempt by Facebook to exercise the power of a state in perpetuity without being beholden to anyone
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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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