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Face Book Oversight Board Kicks Can
Down the Road
Hurray, America trump-free for Six More
Months on FB!
Hurray! The Face
Book Oversight Board gives us a six month reprieve from the loud, obnoxious,
lying crap from former high office holder, trump. Facebook’s Oversight Board
said FB should uphold the ban on former President Donald Trump’s account for
now.
The Face Book
Oversight Board has kicked the can down the road and told Face Book to make
their own decision based on definable rules that they must write.
The Board
said in its decision Wednesday that it was “not
appropriate for Facebook to impose the indeterminate and standard-less penalty
of indefinite suspension,” asking
the site (FB) to review that part of the decision within the next six months.
In response
to the continuation of the imposed FB ban, the former dear leader wrote…
“What Facebook,
Twitter, and Google have done is a total disgrace and an embarrassment to our
country.”
“A total disgrace, an embarrassment
to our country”?
Gee, that reminds me of something - oh yeah…I know, that’s exactly what trump
has done for the past 5 years…been a total disgrace and embarrassment to the
United States.
Continuing
in his response (obviously written by someone who could string 2 or 3 sentences
together)…
“Free Speech has been taken away from
the President of the United States because the Radical Left Lunatics
are afraid of the truth, but the truth will come out anyway, bigger and
stronger than ever before,” Trump said in his statement, which ended
with: “These corrupt social media companies must pay a political price,
and must never again be allowed to destroy and decimate* our Electoral Process.”
Holy crap!
Has trump started drinking? Or has
the FL sun so affected him while on the course, so as to cause a brain
malfunction resulting in a complete loss of memory of events of the last 5
years?
Yeah, I’m
just kidding, he’s always been like this and has prospered from his totally
senseless fables and lies.
Gigantic
tomes could (and will) be researched and written about Face Book, the Oversight
Board and trump’s relationship with FB.
I’m going to
begin with the Oversight Board (OB).
I became
curious as to who sits on the OB. A Google search turned up the information
easily.
The
Oversight Board currently has 20 members; 15 of whom are non US citizen; six
are Human Rights advocates; there are three Journalists and ten Lawyers; nine
are Women.
Who am I to
say what the composition of the FB Oversight board should be? However, it’s my
understanding that even though some international issues have arisen and by the
way, if you haven’t noticed, FB is an international company, the overriding,
most important critical question of the day for FB is - what is Mark Zuckerberg
going to do about Donald trump and his disgustingly corrupt and lying
statements? About EVERYTHING!? And,
should he be permitted to voice those totally false, never ending lies on FB
whenever and however his reptilian brain and little fingers have the urge?
Granted, who
the president of the US is an international issue, but the trump question
mostly resides in the US and in the information the US citizens and by
extension, the voters, will be fed.
Information
is a tricky thing these days especially with so many citizens having access to
all sorts of social media and various platforms enabling them to espouse their
various points of view and agendas.
So, with so
much stuff in the ether, “who you goin’
to trust”?
You’re going
to trust the President or, at a minimum, you should be able to trust the
president. That’s pretty much the way it’s been in America. But our last
president is uniquely untrustworthy, to say the least.
One would
think, looking objectively, that men and women elected to high – or even low
offices should be # 1 on the ‘you can trust’ list. And, the corollary is that
those in office should be allowed to use the highest and most public means of
disseminating the information that the public needs to know to be informed and
make educated decisions based upon true, timely information.
But what
happens when the president and others knowingly post false information to assist
in their desire for power and riches? Simply put, should FB and other platforms
allow lies and corrupt information to be published over their platforms without
any oversight simply because the person is a high office holder?
The answer
is clear; of course not. Not if we want to continue living in a country based
upon facts, evidence, truth, honor and a democratic process.
I became
curious as to the current composition of the OB. I was astonished to learn that
currently, 75% of OB membership is made up of Non-US citizens.
So, and this
is my foundational statement. The Oversight Board, when they investigate and
rule on a strictly American issue, should be composed principally of Americans.
Maybe FB
needs two Oversight Boards? One for issues in the US and another for foreign
country free speech issues.
And how
about that word, American? Americans are a diverse people, we’re not 50%
lawyers or one third human rights advocates.
Lawyers are not the only patriotic Americans and are not the only smart,
courageous people in the country interested in freedom of speech.
The
Oversight Board is currently composed of twenty (20) members:
15 Non-US citizens
from: Ghana, Yemen, India, Kenya,
Australia, Denmark, Columbia, Brazil, Cameroon, UK, Pakistan, Hungary,
Indonesia, Taiwan and Israel. They are paid $240,000 US/year. 6 human
rights advocates, 10 Lawyers, 3 Journalists, 9 Women. I think we
can assume that all of these people on the FB OB are intelligent, well-educated,
earnest, honest people but they bring a certain point of view and life experience
with them onto the Board and as I stated before, three fourths are not US
citizens! An astounding percentage considering that recently, they made a
momentous decision which will affect the future of American politics and every
US citizen.
The other
thing as far as I’m concerned is how about adding an American political
historian, a person steeped in contemporary politics and American civil rights,
a Latino-American labor union leader, an Asian-American scientist or others to
get diverse opinions?
Get rid of a
few lawyers
In this
overriding question about trump resuming his perch as a former president, liar
and provocateur, FB should not rely upon Board members who are not intimately
acquainted with the US to make such far-reaching decisions affecting you and
me.
In making
historic, significant decisions, the OB needs people who not only live in the
US, but follow the news daily and talk, discuss and learn from their fellow
Americans each day of their lives
Zeny.
*Decimation was a form of
Roman military discipline in which every tenth man in a group was executed by
members of his cohort.
