Oversight Board overturns Facebook decision: Case 2020-006-FB-FBR
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Posted By: Howard Adams,
1/28/2021 11:11:26 PM
The Oversight Board has overturned Facebook’s decision to remove a post which it claimed, “contributes to the risk of imminent… physical harm.” The Board found Facebook’s misinformation and imminent harm rule (part of its Violence and Incitement Community Standard) to be inappropriately vague and recommended, among other things, that the company create a new Community Standard on health misinformation.
About the case
In October 2020, a user posted a video and accompanying text in French in a public Facebook group related to COVID-19
Reply 1 - Posted by:
Howard Adams 1/28/2021 11:40:30 PM (No. 678010)
Thanks to the Lucianne staff for permitting the posting of this news release. I am not a lawyer, but please permit me this thought exercise. We are seeing US Death Rates from COVID of ~ 440,000. According to worldometers dot info, the US death rate is 12 times higher than India's. On March 22, 2020, the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) recommended empiric treatment of clinical COVID infection with Hydroxychloroquine (HCQ), Zinc and Vitamin C. President Trump said HCQ was a game changer. Dr Fauci said no. By May 7th, the LA Times went to Dharvali in Mumbai, where Slumdog Millionaire was filmed, and couldn't find rampant COVID cases. If we had adopted ICMR's medical policy, might we have had 400,000 fewer deaths? Facebook, with its fact checkers, took on the role of Medical Expert and suppressed with free exchange of scientific dialogue, even the research of Dr Didier Raoult. Now the evidence is clear that Dr Raoult, and many others were correct about HCQ. Facebook fact checkers were wrong. The internet and social media now have a prominent role in health care, what with telemedicine, fact checking, virtual healthcare delivery, health care education and healthcare policy. Facebook has been at the forefront and has encouraged its development. Might we find internal documents that the Factcheckers had evaluated their efficacy in dissuading 90% of it users in seeking HCQ as a treatment for COVID? Let's go with 50% efficacy in dissuading people from getting or seeking HCQ for treatment of COVID with HCQ. Imagine 50% fewer deaths in the US with HCQ use as it was recommended by ICMR instead of Facebook and Dr Fauci. Might we hold Facebook accountable for 200,000 unnecessary deaths? At $100,000 per unnecessary death, that is a liability of $20,000,000,000. Facebook positioned itself not as a forum for scientific and medical debate of facts, but the arbiter in proper and improper medical practice. Is it not unreasonable to assume that the families of the COVID victims have a case of unnecessary death of their family member?
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DVC 1/29/2021 12:14:39 AM (No. 678028)
What the heck is "Oversight Board"???
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
anniebc 1/29/2021 5:45:20 AM (No. 678120)
If a member of your family died due to fb's arbitration of truth and facts related to covid, contact the law offices of 1-800-GET THEM.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
DVC 1/29/2021 12:09:32 PM (No. 678450)
OK, a bit of research shows that "The Oversight Board" is a creation of Facebook, controlled by Facebook, a fig leaf of "accountability".....to themselves.
They CLAIM:
"As its community grew to more than 2 billion people, it became increasingly clear to the Facebook company that it shouldn’t be making so many decisions about speech and online safety on its own. The Oversight Board was created to help Facebook answer some of the most difficult questions around freedom of expression online: what to take down, what to leave up, and why.
The board uses its independent judgment to support people’s right to free expression and ensure those rights are being adequately respected. The board’s decisions to uphold or reverse Facebook’s content decisions will be binding, meaning Facebook will have to implement them, unless doing so could violate the law. "
https://oversightboard.com/
Of course, this action ONLY comes after it is completely moot. How convenient. Now that huge numbers of people have died, and many could likely have been saved by early use of a very safe, extremely well known drug, HCQ, the information suppression and lies against HCQ, coming from "all the official sources", is suddenly ending.
The political goal is now reversed. Now instead of wanting MORE Wuhan flu deaths, the evil thugs in government and the tech companies need FEWER deaths, not for any humanitarian reasons, but for political reasons ALONE. So, watch for HCQ to be a big part of the lowing rate of serious illness.
These people are evil and perfectly happy to kill hundreds of thousands for political gain without batting an eye. They are murderers, literally. Tech information suppression plus "official" government lies literally killed huge numbers of American by withholding a cheap, readily available, safe treatment.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
DVC 1/29/2021 12:10:38 PM (No. 678451)
stopping runaway italics. Sorry.
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With Lucianne staff permission, I thought this to be interesting. Facebook was wrong about COVID and treatment regimens.