“If this is a genuine attempt to give users control then give them a genuine vote, not a symbolic one Otherwise, stop wasting everyone’s time.”
In late February when Facebook declared that it was going to produce its own site governance to user poll, Facebook CEO said this action was a unprecedented effort to enable participation on the web. Now, can you stand here and say you believe that? I thought you might not.
To support this theory, huge global privacy watchdog, Privacy International revealed to the world that they thought this was only a “publicity stunt and a massive confidence trick on its 200 million users.”
Back in February two documents were unveiled for site governance, the Facebook Principles and the Statement of Rights and Responsibilities. After Facebook took back the terms of use change, Mark Zuckerberg said publically they needed feedback leading to these documents being released.
This meant users could either for the current Terms of Use or the Facebook Principles and Statement of Rights and Responsibilities.
In the original post Zuckerburg quoted,
“For this vote and any future one, the results will be binding if at least 30 percent of active Facebook users at the time that the vote was announced participate. An active user is someone who has logged in to the site in the past 30 days,”
In reply Privacy International, Director Simon Davies said,
“While we support the concept of user participation, the idea of establishing a thirty percent participation threshold is a complete joke. It will never be reached, and Facebook knows it. Earlier this year the figure had been set at 25 percent, and it was edged up because of concerns that users might actually succeed in changing the terms and conditions,”
In addition, Davies suggested that if this is a genuine attempt to give users control then give them a genuine vote, not a symbolic one; otherwise, stop wasting everyone’s time. This to the public meant, they either were ok for now about it or will soon be frustrated and abide against the terms of use.
If any votes were given, Privacy International would not be happy at all!
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