Posted on 05/06/2020 11:37:17 AM PDT by Enlightened1
Facebook on Wednesday announced the first 20 members of its Oversight Board, an independent body that can overturn the company’s own content moderation decisions.
The oversight board will govern appeals from Facebook and Instagram users and questions from Facebook itself, although it admitted it will have to pick and choose which content moderation cases to take due to the sheer volume of them.
The board will receive cases through a content management system that is linked to Facebook’s own platforms. They will then discuss the case as a group before issuing a final decision on whether the content should be allowed to stay up or not.
Facebook announced it was creating the independent board in November 2018, just after a report was published in The New York Times that detailed how the company avoided and deflected blame in the public conversation around its handling of Russian interference and other social network misuses.
The members are a globally diverse group with lawyers, journalists, human rights advocates and other academics. Between them, they are said to have expertise in areas such as digital rights, religious freedom, conflicts between rights, content moderation, internet censorship and civil rights.
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Look at this list of people.
How many conservatives are on it?
All bluehaired checkmarks or soyboy neckbeards.
Why can’t they just let freedom ring?
Looks like mostly One-Worlders. Course we didn’t expect them to put Rush or Mark Steyn on there.
I know folks from Snopes are involved in some form or another.
One of the guys at snopes once called the New Testament an abomination.
So at least we know they’ll be fair :)
FACEBOOK IS A PRIVATE COMPANY IT CAN DO WHAT IT LIKES!
FACEBOOK IS A PRIVATE COMPANY IT CAN DO WHAT IT LIKES!
FACEBOOK IS A PRIVATE COMPANY IT CAN DO WHAT IT LIKES!
FACEBOOK IS A PRIVATE COMPANY IT CAN DO WHAT IT LIKES!
So if a private company censors speech on its platform at the bidding of a government authority, would *that* be a violation of the First Amendment?
People in the Reopen MD group are getting visits from the LEO for “threatening posts” though there are none.
Hey I have an idea since we created it we can tank it, DONT USE FACEBOOK
5 will get you 10 when you go through their social media or do any amount of research they turn out to be leftist TDS & anti-Christian cases who are likely confused about how many of the 57 genders they are.
I don’t.
btt
Nice.
How fascist of the left.
So if AT&T listened in to your private phone conversations, or whoever is your local phone company, did this to you would you take the same position? After all AT&T is a private company.
Keep in mind Social Media is today’s modern telephone. That is how most people communicate.
Who Is Pamela Karlan? Legal Leader Committed to Progressive Causes
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/12/04/us/politics/pamela-karlan.html
A bunch of Internationalist Leftist activists. No bias there.
OH NO!
Too bad everyone is forced to use Facebook.
They’ll put you in a FEMA camp if you don’t.
Right?
When people from the same government that issues your license to operate “suggests” censoring posts THAT in my opinion violates the first amendment.
https://globalnetworkinitiative.org/participants/evelyn-aswad/
https://globalnetworkinitiative.org/about-gni/
Every day, technology companies receive requests from governments around the world to censor content, restrict access to communications services, or provide access to user data. Given this reality, how can technology companies best respect the freedom of expression and privacy rights of their users – wherever they operate?
The Global Network Initiative (GNI) was launched in 2008 to address this question. A unique multistakeholder platform, GNI was the product of more than two years of deliberation by information and communications technology (ICT) companies, human rights and press freedom organizations, academics, and investors.
The architects of GNI created a multistakeholder process because they recognized that the complex and evolving challenge of protecting digital rights globally requires a concerted and combined effort, drawing on the perspectives, leverage, credibility, and expertise of many different stakeholders.
They also agreed that the foundation for good law and policy is internationally recognized rights to freedom of expression and privacy. These rights and protections are enshrined in instruments such as the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, and subsequently, the United Nations Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights
“Every day, technology companies receive requests from governments around the world to censor content”
Say NO
Hey I have an idea since we created it we can tank it, DONT USE FACEBOOK
http://www.osiwa.org/about-us/what-we-do/
OUR ROLE
OSIWA plays a dual role in the region as both an advocate and grant-maker by enabling itself to be agenda-setters both within and alongside other organizations working on the ground. The Foundation works through a unique combination of grant making, advocacy, partnership building and technical assistance.
For example, we help support the production of publications and research studies; run advocacy campaigns using creative means; and provide institutional support to partners on the ground. While most funders either tend to focus exclusively on civil society or governmental institutions, OSIWA has carved its niche through a two-pronged strategic focus: strengthening both democratic institutions and structures and civic participation in decision-making. There are several areas where, over the years, OSIWA has produced strong results.
OUR HIGHLIGHTS
The creation of the West Africa Civil Society Institute (WACSI) as a pioneering capacity-building institution that runs workshops, trainings and conferences that focus on transparency and governance issues in the region. In 2013, WACSI provided capacity building support to over 400 civil society practitioners from about 350 civil society organizations from ten West African Countries (Cote d’Ivoire, Niger, Benin, Zimbabwe, Guinea, Ghana, Nigeria, Senegal, Liberia and Sierra Leone).
Supported for awareness-raising on public service delivery. Advocacy campaigns on free movement of goods and services and ‘Publish What You Pay’ have been undertaken in several countries with positive impact in terms of improved citizens’ awareness of their rights in these areas.
The development of the Election Situation Room (ESR) model for civil society engagement with elections in West Africa as a means of lesson-sharing to assure coordinated civil society efforts during election times.
Organized and facilitated, alongside its sister network program Open Society Justice Initiative, the West and Central Africa Regional Consultation on the Draft Global Best Principles on National Security and Freedom of Information.
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