Before Facebook’s Oversight Board determines whether Donald Trump can post on its platform tomorrow at 9 a.m., I just want to remind everyone that their decision is not the law.
Facebook asked people to do some content moderation, and those people said yes. That’s it.
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You can dress this up in whatever veneer of credibility you want, but the Facebook Oversight Board is a collection of people who got asked to make rules for one website and were paid for it. Their decisions have as much industry-wide impact and credibility as the public lends it.
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We can also debate the merits of who the people on Facebook’s Oversight Board are. The most prominent American disinformation researchers are not on it. Facebook disputes this, but it’s true.
Even if they were, they’re not a court. They’re a private company’s paid-for panel.
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Everyone should just stop using facebook. Glorified birthday calendar and fake news perpetuation machine.
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I'm not sure the Right is going to understand the difference between a private companies decision and the Biden administration ala the Dr Suess conniption.
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Facebook is the inverse tree falling in the forest:
If your uncle exists entirely on Facebook, and a rule is passed there... it IS law.
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I have continued to hold onto my Facebook account for family and long distance friends but if they allow him back on, I'll delete the account permanently and without hesitation.
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A private company has a group they picked that will decide if the revenues created by letting him back on outweigh the PR problems and potential revenue loss of doing so. It’s not about freedom, it’s about revenues.
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