{"id":37420,"date":"2018-09-06T06:44:37","date_gmt":"2018-09-06T11:44:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=37420"},"modified":"2018-09-06T06:44:37","modified_gmt":"2018-09-06T11:44:37","slug":"sheryl-sandberg-misled-congress-about-facebooks-conscience","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=37420","title":{"rendered":"Sheryl Sandberg Misled Congress About Facebook’s Conscience"},"content":{"rendered":"
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SHERYL SANDBERG MISLED CONGRESS ABOUT FACEBOOK\u2019S CONSCIENCE<\/a><\/h3>\n
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FACEBOOK CHIEF OPERATING<\/u>\u00a0officer Sheryl Sandberg draped herself in the star-spangled banner of American principles before today\u2019s Senate Select Intelligence Committee hearing on social media. Sandberg proclaimed that democratic values of free expression were integral to the company\u2019s conscience. \u201cWe would only operate in a country where we could do so in keeping with our values,\u201d she went on. Either this was a lie told under oath, or Facebook has some pretty lousy values.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u00a0would only operate in a country where we could do so in keeping with our values.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., questioned\u00a0Sandberg and Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey about the fact that they are\u00a0both ostensibly American companies, but also firms with users around the world \u2014 including in countries with legal systems and values\u00a0that differ drastically from the United States. Rubio cited various governments that crack down on, say, pro-democracy activism and that criminalize such speech. How can a company like Facebook claim that it\u2019s committed to free expression as a global value while maintaining its adherence to rule of law on a local level? When it comes to democratic values, Rubio asked, \u201cDo you support them only in the United States or are these principles that you feel obligated to support around the world?\u201d<\/p>\n

Sandberg, as always, didn\u2019t miss a beat: \u201cWe support these principles around the world.\u201d Shortly thereafter she made the claim that Facebook simply would not do business in a country where these values couldn\u2019t be maintained.<\/p>\n

Based on the information Facebook itself makes available, this is false.\u00a0In its latest publicly available \u201ctransparency report,\u201d Facebook says it helps block free expression as a matter of policy \u2014 so long as it\u2019s technically legal in a given market.<\/p>\n

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Photo: Jim Watson\/AFP\/Getty Images SHERYL SANDBERG MISLED CONGRESS ABOUT FACEBOOK\u2019S CONSCIENCE FACEBOOK CHIEF OPERATING\u00a0officer Sheryl Sandberg draped herself in the star-spangled banner of American principles before today\u2019s Senate Select Intelligence Committee hearing on social media. Sandberg proclaimed that democratic values of free expression were integral to the company\u2019s conscience. \u201cWe would only operate in a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[1493,17571,15125,21541,10820,5567,819,827],"class_list":["post-37420","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-liberty","tag-facebook","tag-jack-dorsey","tag-sam-biddle","tag-senate-select-intelligence-committee","tag-sheryl-sandberg","tag-the-intercept","tag-twitter","tag-united-states"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37420","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=37420"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37420\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37421,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37420\/revisions\/37421"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=37420"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=37420"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=37420"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}