{"id":245899,"date":"2021-05-09T19:15:50","date_gmt":"2021-05-09T16:15:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/facebook-oversight-board-member-says-site-wields-too-much-power\/"},"modified":"2021-05-09T19:15:50","modified_gmt":"2021-05-09T16:15:50","slug":"facebook-oversight-board-member-says-site-wields-too-much-power","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/facebook-oversight-board-member-says-site-wields-too-much-power\/","title":{"rendered":"#Facebook oversight board member says site wields ‘too much power’"},"content":{"rendered":"

“#Facebook<\/a> oversight board member says site wields ‘too much power’<\/strong>”
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A co-chair of the Facebook Oversight Board that temporarily extended the ban against former President Donald Trump said Sunday that the social media giant\u2019s rules governing content are in \u201cshambles\u201d and \u201cnot transparent\u201d \u2014 and the company \u201cexercises too much power.\u201d<\/p>\n

Michael McConnell, a law professor at Stanford University, said the board agreed that Facebook was right in removing Trump from the site because he \u201cis subject to the same rules on Facebook as everyone else.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cWhat we did say, though, was that they were not justified taking him down indefinitely, that they did not provide any reasons for that, that is not a provision in their rules, that was wrong. And we gave them a certain amount of time to get their house in order,\u201d McConnell told \u201cFox News Sunday\u201d <\/a>about last week\u2019s decision.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey needed some time because their rules are shambles. They are not transparent. They are unclear, they are internally inconsistent. So we made a series<\/a> of recommendations about how to make their rules clearer and more consistent, and the hope is that they will use the next few months to do that,\u201d McConnell said in the interview that aired Sunday.<\/p>\n

\u201cAnd then when they come back and look at this, they\u2019ll be able to app<\/a>ly those rules in a straight-forward way,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n

The board announced the decision last week, finding that the former president violated Facebook\u2019s rules \u201cprohibiting praise or support in support of people engaged in violence\u201d with his posts about the mob attacking the US Capitol on Jan. 6.<\/p>\n

Trump referred to the rioters as \u201cgreat patriots\u201d and called on them to \u201cremember this day forever,\u201d but also said \u201cwe have to have peace.\u201d<\/p>\n

McConnell said Trump was \u201cegging on\u201d the mob that attacked the Capitol as Congress was certifying the 2020 election for President Biden.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cSo this is a plain violation of Facebook\u2019s rules against praising dangerous individuals and organizations at a time of\u00a0violence,\u201d McConnell said.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe simple answer is private companies are not bound by the First Amendment. And so he has no First Amendment rights. He\u2019s a customer. Facebook is not a government, and he is not a citizen of Facebook,\u201d McConnell said.<\/p>\n

But he went on to criticize Facebook for its influence and the overarching\u00a0power it has in the digital marketplace.<\/p>\n

\u201cFacebook exercises too much power. They are arbitrary. They are inconsistent and it is the job of the oversight board to try to bring some discipline to that process,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

\u201cSo what we have done is to identify ways in which Facebook has been nontransparent, ways in which they\u2019ve been arbitrary and trying to nudge them toward a more free speech, free expression, friendly environment,\u201d McConnell added.<\/p>\n

Responding to Wallace\u2019s question about whether social media giants like Facebook and Twitter should be broken up by Congress because of the power they wield, he said that would be up to lawmakers to decide.<\/p>\n

\u201cBut this is not a First Amendment issue. It is not as if \u2014 you can\u2019t go to court, no judge in the country would hold that Mr. Trump\u2019s free speech rights were violated,\u201d McConnell said.<\/p>\n

Wallace pressed him on the board\u2019s independence because Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg appointed\u00a0the board\u2019s chairs and set up the trust that pays them.<\/p>\n

\u201cLet me tell you, I\u2019ve gotten to know these 20 people around the world, and the danger that they are toadies for Facebook is just about zero. \u2026 We are not beholden to Facebook. Most decisions so far have been overturning Facebook\u2019s decisions,\u201d he said.\n <\/p><\/div>\n

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“#Facebook oversight board member says site wields ‘too much power’” A co-chair of the Facebook Oversight Board that temporarily extended the ban against former President Donald Trump said Sunday that the social media giant\u2019s rules governing content are in \u201cshambles\u201d and \u201cnot transparent\u201d \u2014 and the company \u201cexercises too much power.\u201d Michael McConnell, a law…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":245900,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/05\/zuckerberg-067.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&w=1200","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[70897],"tags":[105141,89089,4941,4974,4976],"class_list":["post-245899","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-5-9-21","tag-capitol-riot","tag-donald-trump","tag-facebook","tag-social-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245899","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=245899"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245899\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/245900"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=245899"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=245899"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=245899"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}