And so heavy handed governmental regulation is the answer according to you? That sort of reminds me of the old Aesop’s fable of King Stork and King Log
--srs
On Fri, Oct 4, 2019 at 6:23 AM +0530, "parminder" <parminder at itforchange.net> wrote:
I remember how many years back people on
this list, and I can distinctly recall my friend Bertrand de la
Chapelle for instance advocate this , that, and I paraphrase, facebook
'community' itself is a distinct social and perhaps political
entity, and how we should focus on its community self governance
and so on ..... These, what we talk about now, are chicken
coming home to roost .... We propagated this lawless
digital world of self-regulation and big corporation vetoes for
quite a long time. Why rue it now...
Yes, some politicians may be making the right notes, but what
notes is the IG civil society making, still!
My ironical comments - and I apologise for that -- are towards
the practical purpose of exhorting the IG civil society to make a
real and strong reassessment of what their single-minded
devotionto just one thing of multi-stakeholderism and
self-regulation has brought the world to, and what amends can we
make at this stage. We bear a responsibility to the world.
parminder
On 04/10/19 2:59 AM, Ian Peter wrote:
[IGP Announce] Facebook’s Oversight Board: A toothless
Supreme Court?
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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Subject: [governance] FW: Facebook’s Oversight Board: A
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Facebook’s
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Oversight
Board it
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content
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responsibilities
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