Wed, May 5th 2021 11:02am
Cathy Gellis
Today is Facebook Oversight Board Hysteria Day, because today is the day that the Facebook Oversight Board has rendered its decision about Facebook s suspension of Donald Trump. And it has met the moment with an appropriately dull decision, dripping in pedantic reasonableness, that is largely consistent with our Copia Institute recommendation.
If you remember, we were hesitant about submitting a comment at all. And the reaction to the Board s decision bears out why. People keep reacting as though it is some big, monumental, important decision, when, in actual fact, it isn t at all. In the big scheme of things, it s still just a private company being advised by its private advisory board on how to run its business, nothing more. As it is, Trump himself is still on the Internet – it s not like Facebook actually had the power to silence him. We need to be worried about when there actually
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