Facebook Policies: Is Venomous?

 

Amidst the humongous controversy revolving around the policy that Facebook adheres to, it has always been fringing around legalities and sues by different countries and organizations. Since its foundation, Facebook has always been in the news of Lawsuits apart from it being one of the richest organizations in the world? The Prima Facie always being on privacy violations, approval of inappropriate content, harming the harmony of a nation and a plethora of illegal and unethical practices that Facebook has dwelt into forever. Raising a very pivotal question... Who will bell the cat?

Before we get into the details of the Lawsuits and illegal practices Facebook has, lets understand the importance of biding by the legalities of a nation, harmony and privacy of any person who has trusted a platform for their personal share. Platforms are business models that create marketplaces to match different parties with complementary interests, relying on what economists call ‘indirect network effects.’ Dating sites, eBay, Facebook, YouTube, and operating systems such as Android and iOS are all different types of platforms. Social media platforms connect consumers with digital content creators and typically monetize their interactions through advertising revenue. Since platforms do not generally create their content, they contend that they are not responsible for what users produce and are thus exempt from the libel, defamation, and other laws and regulations that govern traditional media like newspapers and television. Hate Speeches, content, anti-peace interests are quite easy to publish in social media sites by any user which can act as an influencer to create an environment of worry and distress. This doesn’t indicate a stumbling block to the freedom of speech at all but this definitely has to come under sedition charges. All demographics across the globe aspires to learn from Social Media platforms but most of which is woefully exposed to farce content, false news and derogatory remarks and notions around Facts and figures. Post false and undecisive actions, there are marketing tools that are being exploited to ensure that a false content is manifested among bulk audience creating a massacre and sometimes violent means.  

I would agree to the fact that there are million users in Social Media platforms and scrutinizing every user is a task to do. But Social media must work with the Government to fabricate a system in place to ensure that false and hate content should not be spread and should not be imbibed into minds of people creating a travesty in an environment. Facebook has always been into the limelight of election meddling, illegally sharing data of users to 3^rd party organizations, harming harmony and interfering in internal matters of a nation or economy. This has got nothing to politicizing the matter for one nation but maintaining peace and harmony in the world. Social media is the new age source of learning, information, branding, socialising and discussions. Another abhorrent capacity with Facebook is the biasness that lies within internal employees. This has been time and again proven across the Globe that employees of different nation for Facebook has been very biased to market those posts which the person finds to be useful and contended with. This is not something that should be tolerated as being an open source platform there should be all liberalism and unbiased arena where all views, understandings, opinion should be respected and conceded till the time those are again an act of sedition, unethical and false content.

Facebook now should act like a watchdog against their policies and revamp the same to make it better in accordance to the rules and regulations of a country and the legalities. In the last 2 years, on records there has been cases filed against Facebook from 86 nations across the Globe. From all continents there has been some miscreants by Facebook that has damaged the Goodwill, privacy and integrity of individuals and nations. Everyone is well versed with the Election Meddling campaign and sharing data of 1.2 million users in 2019 without user consent. The law and order should strictly bind Facebook and other social media platforms to abide by their respective constitutions. Amidst the ongoing debate of Social Media being regulated, I find it to be the thirst need of the hour. Facebook has done enough damage to individuals, entities and nation and it should not be dispensed a freehand in this regard.

We as individuals should also stick to moral and social responsibilities. We should strictly ignore false and hate content, learn about facts and figures. Post our own analysis and research we should create an opinion and act instead of getting into the trap of all illegal solicitations Facebook has in store.