Tuesday, April 10, 2018

Zuckerberg wants a Facebook Supreme Court? Fine

Mark Zuckerberg was in the news a short time back. Articles were noting how his Community monitors were more like Commie monitors. He responded by suggesting a Supreme Court for Facebook. Today he testified before Congress. I have yet to watch the Q&A. Some how the thought of buying a new monitor doesn't fit with my budget.
Fine, lets have a Supreme Court to monitor Social media. Her are a few of my ideas.
The Court should be comprised of 51 members. each Governor shall appoint one member, and the President shall appoint one member. Each member shall serve at the pleasure of their respective Governor and shall answer only to the Governor. Neither the President nor the Governors shall be privy to how members of the court voted.
Each member shall be guaranteed anonymity. Only the Governor and other members of the court shall know their true identity. Any attempt to unmask a member shall constitute a felony and be punishable by not less than five years in prison. Persons convicted of unmasking or threatening a member of the Court shall not be eligible for pardon.
Members shall be familiar with internet protocols and procedures.
Members shall not be attorneys nor members or past members of law enforcement, nor shall they be involved in the justice system except through their position in the court. If an appointee is a member of a forbidden class, they shall be unmasked, and the Governor who appointed them shall lose his or her right to appoint.
The Court shall have power to reestablish social media sites and groups, but shall not have power to ban or remove said sites.
If a person, group or organization is banned, they shall have the right to appeal said censure. That request may be directed to any court member, and all sites shall provide a link to the Court E-mails which shall be simply _appointee@socialmediacourt.gov To which a complaint would be directed.
The member receiving the complaint would become the presiding judge for the complaints they receive.
The member appointed by the President would not receive complaints but would be on call to cast a tie breaking vote if such were ever to arise.
The court would then send a notification to the site controller to submit within 72 hours documentation as to why the site was shut down or restore it PERMANENTLY.
If the information is not furnished, the responsible party would be subject to a $1,000 fine, a year in jail, and $50,000 restitution.
Sites existing outside the United States would not be subject to the court nor eligible for review, nor allowed to complain. Thus, a person residing in Pakistan would not be able to submit a complaint against any site in the United States which could be actionable, and if a host were to take action on a complaint originating outside the United States, the host would be subject to fines as above. However, plaintiffs outside the United States complaining about sites outside the United States would not fall under the jurisdiction of the court.
Once documentation is submitted, the Court would examine all materials deemed offensive. The Court members would have fifteen days from the call to order by the presiding Judge to review the material and cast a vote. In the event the case load was to become too great, the time line could be extended as per vote of the court.
If the site reviewed is deemed to violate established norms of decency, such as calling for mass murder of groups based on race, religion, ethnicity political position, or if the site content is deemed to be of a criminal nature, the decision of the web host would be upheld. If the nature of the material was found to be free expression, free speak,  free association, or  free press, no matter how inflammatory or volatile, the host would be ordered to reestablish the site, protect their content from all intrusion, and censure the plaintiff. Speech often called hate speech is still freedom of speech unless it directly threatens the life or well being of individuals or groups.
For example, "I hate Rednecks" is protected speech. "Kill all Rednecks" is threatening and actionable.
The Host would also be ordered to pay the harmed person or group damages of not less than $50,000 nor more than $1,000,000. The amount of the penalty would be scaled based on the vote of the court and not on a separate vote.
In the event any site is shut down, no matter what the reason, the host would be required to post the name address and contact information of the Person who initiated the complaint. Thus, if a person went to my site, and it had been shut down, they would see a message, "This site has been deemed offensive and has been shut down based on a complaint from Joe Blow 2222 Elm slew Swamp, Gulible Kansas and may be reached by calling or texting 785-555-1234.

OK, that is my dumb idea on how to police the socialist nazis who seem to be controlling the social media.

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