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RESTON, VA – The Free Speech Alliance (FSA), a coalition of more than 40 conservative organizations, released the following statement Thursday about Facebook's new Oversight Board and efforts to decide what content should be taken down from the site. Here is the statement in full:
Blog By Staff | May 18, 2021 | 10:43am EDT
MRC Pres. Brent Bozell
On Tuesday morning, Media Research Center President Brent Bozell released an open letter to Facebook President Mark Zuckerberg about the site’s alleged neutrality. Bozell explained that recent statements by a member of the Board of Trustees for Facebook’s Oversight Board make it clear Facebook is bowing to “Silicon Valley Values.” He declared, “Giving Facebook any further Section 230 protections is an indefensible proposition.”
Here is Bozell s full letter to Zuckerberg:
Dear Mark,
The fallout of the continued Trump ban is unfortunate and has further exacerbated the problems between Facebook and the conservative movement. Facebook is increasingly behaving as an overt publisher, and disregarding its pledge to be an open forum for discussion. It is why there is and must be serious discussions to amend, or altogether remove the Section 230 prot
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RESTON, VA –
The Free Speech Alliance (FSA), a coalition of more than 60 conservative organizations, released the following statement Thursday about Facebook s new Oversight Board and efforts to decide what content should be taken down from the site.
The FSA declared, “Conservatives warned from the start that any new oversight mechanism was fraught with danger. Our fears were well founded. This new board will damage Facebook more than it can imagine.”
[Screen shot at right is from Facebook s video on the oversight board.]
Here is the statement in full:
While leftist organizations savaged him, we supported CEO Mark Zuckerberg when he talked about making Facebook a marketplace of ideas and spoke forcefully saying the company “must continue to stand for free expression.”