Posted on 02/21/2021 1:09:23 PM PST by SeekAndFind
Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison says Facebook has “friended us again” and talks have resumed after the social media giant accidentally shut public information accounts.
Morrison says he’s glad Facebook is “back at the table” for discussions over the Australian government’s media bargaining code, jesting the U.S. tech giant has “tentatively friended us again.”
However, the company shows no sign of backing down after banning access to news and information pages across Australia in response to the code.
Senior Facebook Asia-Pacific executive Simon Milner was on Friday forced to apologise after the company accidentally also banned access to accounts run by government bodies and state health departments.
This came before the national rollout of the COVID-19 vaccine from Monday.
Morrison on Saturday said he welcomed Milner’s apology, adding that Facebook’s closure of the public information accounts was indefensible.
“My job now is to ensure we get on with those discussions, that we bring them to a successful conclusion,” Morrison told reporters. “The Australian government’s position is very clear, people would know the strong support being provided internationally for Australia’s position.
“I’m pleased Facebook has decided, it would seem, to tentatively friend us again and get those discussions going again … to ensure that the protections we want to put in place to ensure we have a free and democratic society that is supported by an open news media can continue.”
Facebook initially claimed it had no choice but to shut health and emergency services pages down, arguing the bargaining code was poorly worded.
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This is scary. When Facebook can p-whip an entire country into acquiescing to their every demand, it shows how weak Australia really is.
Unfortunately, the US is no better or worse than Australia. Facebook, Twitter, Google, etc. calls the shots over what happens in this country as well.
They like us! They really like us!
Our condolences mate.
“ after the social media giant accidentally shut public information accounts.”
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Seriously? This is a joke, right? Do they expect anybody to actually believe this was an accident?
That little weasel Zuckerberg just realized he pissed off an entire continent. That’s a lot of money and market to lose.
Golf Clap heard faintly in the background.
Kick it out of your nation. You’ll be better off.
If the PM had any gonads, zuckerberg would have a warrant out on him and would be extradited!
That’s kinda like be “friended” by Jeffrey Dahmer isn’t it?
Oz was better off without FB.
skidMark changed his underwear?
I can’t decide who is less likeable: Zuckerberg or Martin “Pharma-Bro” Shkreli.
“Learning Your Lesson.”
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Class 101
12 Feb: New Yorker: Inside the Making of Facebook’s Supreme Court
The company has created a board that can overrule even Mark Zuckerberg. Soon it will decide whether to allow Trump back on Facebook.
By Kate Klonick
In 2019, Facebook agreed to let me report on the process, and I spent eighteen months following its development...
The idea for the Oversight Board came from ***Noah Feldman, a fifty-year-old professor at Harvard Law School...
One day, Feldman was riding a bike in the neighboring hills when, he said, “it suddenly hit me: Facebook needs a Supreme Court.” He raced home and wrote up the idea, arguing that social-media companies should create “quasi-legal systems” to weigh difficult questions around freedom of speech. “They could cite judicial opinions from different countries,” he wrote. “It’s easy to imagine that if they do their job right, real courts would eventually cite Facebook and Google opinions in return.”...
In November, 2018, Feldman gave a short presentation to Facebook’s corporate board, at Zuckerberg’s invitation...
I began by shadowing Facebook’s Governance and Strategic Initiatives Team, which was tasked with creating the board. The core group was made up of a dozen employees, mostly in their thirties, who had come from the United Nations, the Obama White House, and the Justice Department, among other places. It was led by Brent Harris, a former consultant to nonprofits who frequently arrived at our meetings eating a granola bar...
People familiar with the process told me that some Republicans were upset about what they perceived to be the board’s liberal slant. In the months leading up to the appointments, conservative groups pushed the company to make the board more sympathetic to Trump. They suggested their own lists of candidates, which sometimes included members of the President’s family, most notably Ivanka and the President’s sons. “The idea was, either fill this board with Trump-supporting conservatives or kill it,” one person familiar with the process said. In early May, shortly after the board members were announced, Trump personally called Zuckerberg to say that he was unhappy with the makeup of the board.
***He was especially angry about the selection of Pamela Karlan, a Stanford Law professor ***who had testified against him during his first impeachment...
https://www.newyorker.com/tech/annals-of-technology/inside-the-making-of-facebooks-supreme-court
***Feldman and “impeachment”:
4 Dec 2019: PBS: Read Noah Feldman’s full opening statement in the Trump impeachment hearing
PBS NewsHour White House correspondent Yamiche Alcindor obtained the opening statement.
Noah Feldman, Harvard law professor, is expected to testify before House lawmakers Wednesday that President Donald Trump “has committed impeachable high crimes and misdemeanors by corruptly abusing the office of the presidency.”...
Feldman, who was called as a witness by House Democrats, will testify that the evidence shows Trump conditioned military aid to Ukraine as well as a White House meeting on the announcement of an investigation into his political rivals...
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/read-noah-feldmans-full-opening-statement-in-the-trump-impeachment-hearing
13 Jan 2021: WGBH: ‘The Framers Understood That Such A President Had To Be Removed,’ Harvard Law Prof. Says
By Arun Rath and Matt Baskin
Harvard law professor and constitutional scholar Noah Feldman discussed Trump’s second impeachment with GBH All Things Considered host Arun Rath...
https://www.wgbh.org/news/politics/2021/01/13/the-framers-understood-that-such-a-president-had-to-be-removed-harvard-law-prof-says
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