5 minutes agoFacebook sets up its Constitutional Court
Periskopi(6 years ago)
(6 years ago)Facebook and Instagram. But by absolute sovereignty, the American will apparently be transformed into the head of a state with a literal constitution. After last months' approval of a document identifying the principles of the company and rules that each should therefore respect some type of “Constitution” of the social network giant already with [...]
After last month's adoption of a document identifying the principles of the company and the rules that each should therefore respect a type of “Constitutional constitution” of the giant social networks, already with the initiative of its creator Mark Zuckenberg, Facebook but even the Instagram will have a “Constitutional secretions “ “
It's about 40 people, 20 of whom are already confirmed on duty. It's about international personalities, different countries, and speaking 28 languages of the world.
We have Nobel Prizes, like the activist Tawakkol Karman, winner journalists of the Pulitzer Prize as former director of The Guardian, Alan Rusbridger, but also former prime minister like Denmark's Helle Thorning-Schmidt.
Among these names, the most popular, dozens of professors and lawyers from the world's most prestigious universities, such as Columbia and Stanford.
The objective of the Court, officially called “Overright Board”, will be intervention in the most sensitive issues involving two social networks, Facebook and Instagram, ranging from eliminating specific profiles or pages to citing topics like racial hatred, respecting privacy, religious discrimination, etc.
According to Facebook Vice President Nick Clegg, the new institution, which will also have a budget of around 130m dollars, has independence in these decisions, which will be final and unequivocal by ownership.
