Facebook Just Forced Its Most Powerful Critics Offline

"Nothing says 'free speech' quite as much as a multi-billion dollar corporation with a global monopoly getting its critics shut down."

by David Gilbert

October 8, 2020, 2:46pm

Facebook is using its vast legal muscle to silence one of its most prominent critics.

The Real Facebook Oversight Board, a group established last month in response to the tech giant’s failure to get its actual Oversight Board up and running before the presidential election, was forced offline on Wednesday night after Facebook wrote to the internet service provider demanding the group’s website — realfacebookoversight.org — be taken offline.

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