[governance] FW: Facebook’s Oversight Board: A toothless Supreme Court?

[Ian Peter]

Well, hardly a supreme court!

>From what I read this body just looks at one issue - content moderation. 
This is often a culture-specific issue - what should be taken down in 
some cultures is perfectly OK in many others. Good luck to them in 
achieving anything more than the decades of debate on this subject have. 
Where there is global agreement on offensive content, I am not sure this 
board will be able to add any value.

But thats hardly the point. Facebook will claim that this is an example 
of how it is being consultative and involving of its community, and how 
this makes it a model corporate player. People will buy this spin, and 
issues which Facebook refuses to address through this or any other body 
such as data monetisation and other uses of personal data will be swept 
under the carpet and forgotten - at least in the FB spin.

I think the question for us is how we keep the bigger issues from being 
forgotten in this context. I hear one US presidential hopeful (Eliz 
abeth Warren) is raising the subjects, but some powerful Wall Street 
based Democrat financial supporters are threatening not to back her 
because of this.

Data  monetisation and surveillance capitalism are big issues not being 
addressed adequately anywhere yet. I hope we can raise this issue 
effectively.

Ian Peter



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