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--></style></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink="#954F72" style='word-wrap:break-word'><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif'>Re: Facebook’s oversight board<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif'>Certainly a good read. I don’t believe Facebook can be serious. We have all been there before. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif'>Major league basketball had hired </span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif'><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kenesaw_Mountain_Landis"><span style='color:#0645AD;background:white'>Kenesaw Mountain Landis</span></a><span style='color:#202122;background:white'> as </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commissioner_of_Baseball" title="Commissioner of Baseball"><span style='color:#0645AD;background:white;text-decoration:none'>League Commissioner</span></a><span style='color:#202122;background:white'> to quell questions about the integrity of baseball in wake of the </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Sox_Scandal" title="Black Sox Scandal"><span style='color:#0645AD;background:white;text-decoration:none'>1919 World Series gambling scandal</span></a><span style='color:#202122;background:white'>. (Wikipedia)<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif;color:#202122;background:white'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif'><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Will_H._Hays" title="Will H. Hays"><span style='color:#0645AD;background:#F8F9FA;text-decoration:none'>"Will" Hays</span></a><span style='color:#202122;background:#F8F9FA'> was recruited by the motion picture industry studios in 1922 to help clean up their "Sin City" image after a series of scandals. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif;color:#202122;background:#F8F9FA'>The principle motivation in both these cases was to avoid Government intervention but the result was largely ineffectual. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif;color:#202122;background:#F8F9FA'>In the movie industry for example, </span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif;color:#202122;background:white'>American Roman Catholics later launched a campaign against what they deemed the immorality of American cinema. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif;color:#202122;background:white'>This, plus a potential government takeover of film censorship , and social research seeming to indicate that movies which were seen to be immoral could promote bad behavior, was enough pressure to force the studios to capitulate to greater oversight. (Wikipedia)<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif;color:#202122;background:white'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif;color:#202122;background:white'>I suspect social media may eventually get similar fit for purpose treatment.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif;color:#202122;background:white'>RD<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#202122;background:white'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Sent from <a href="https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=550986">Mail</a> for Windows 10. </p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div style='mso-element:para-border-div;border:none;border-top:solid #E1E1E1 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal style='border:none;padding:0in'><b>From: </b><a href="mailto:milton@gatech.edu">Mueller, Milton L</a><br><b>Sent: </b>Wednesday, February 17, 2021 8:52 PM<br><b>To: </b><a href="mailto:NCSG-DISCUSS@listserv.syr.edu">NCSG-DISCUSS@listserv.syr.edu</a><br><b>Subject: </b>Re: Report on IG</p></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'>Definitely worth reading, David! Urge others to read it as well<o:p></o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal>Milton Mueller <o:p></o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal>Professor, School of Public Policy<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>Georgia Institute of Technology <o:p></o:p></p></div></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><br><br><o:p></o:p></p><blockquote style='margin-top:5.0pt;margin-bottom:5.0pt'><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'>On Feb 17, 2021, at 10:43, David Post <david.g.post@gmail.com> wrote:<o:p></o:p></p></blockquote></div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:5.0pt;margin-right:.5in;margin-bottom:5.0pt;margin-left:.5in'> Milton<br><br>You might find my essay on the Oversight Board of interest [spoiler alert: I'm not a big fan]<br><a href="https://nam12.safelinks.protection.outlookcom/?url=https%3A%2F%2Freason.com%2Fvolokh%2F2021%2F02%2F17%2Fthe-facebook-oversight-board%2F&data=04%7C01%7Cmilton%40GATECH.EDU%7C3741e60077b1455bee2108d8d35ac2bd%7C482198bbae7b4b258b7a6d7f32faa083%7C0%7C0%7C637491734058366055%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C1000&sdata=3V4JcJfPO%2FDoJKSsPTvAsom%2BwQZSSIPyZ3zSimgKSMc%3D&reserved=0">https://reason.com/volokh/2021/02/17/the-facebook-oversight-board/</a><br><br>David<br><br><br><br><br>*******************************<br><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>David G. 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