FB oversight member says free speech
‘is not an absolute human right’
Posted By: earlybird, 7/16/2021 12:59:41 PM
A Facebook Oversight Board member says free speech is “not an absolute human right,” and must be balanced against “other human rights” when deciding what content to censor. The board member, former Danish Prime Minister Helle Thorning Schmidt, said “free speech is not an absolute human right.” “It has to be balanced with other human rights,” she said Thursday at a Politico Europe event. The 20-member Facebook Oversight Board was set up last year to allow corporate executives to claim distance from politically sensitive decisio
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“It has to be balanced with all the human rights and that is what the oversight is there to do,” (Snip).Thorning-Schmidt is one of the 20 people who sit on Facebook’s newest attempt to create a mass censorship campaign,
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Social Democrat from Sweden is on FaceBook oversite committee telling us we don’t have freedom of speech.