What has a population of over 900 million, coming third after China and India, but unlike China and India isn’t a country? The answers folks is, Facebook. It is a social media site that recently signed on with the Global Network Initiative (GNI). This organization is designed to protect online users’ freedom of expression and privacy. With Facebook’s many and worldwide users, joining with GNI is a great way to assure their members that they are respected and will be treated just as human as if the business were face-to-face. And they did this at such a crucial time for them because they are getting terrible feedback from users whose freedom of expression and privacy were violated.
The article “Ruling Facebookistan”, perfectly executed the idea that online networking and any telecommunication industries need to remember that on the other side of the screen are flesh and blood and we need to be treated with the same humanistic mentality. The article shared an eyewitness’ story of a Taiwanese retired activist whose Facebook account was deleted, along with other Taiwanese activists and politics, the night before the commemoration of the June 4 Tiananmen Square massacre. This immediately ignited conspiracy theories and an uproar. What this means for Facebook is a decrease in users, the loss of users’ trust, a bad rep for their name, and most of all the violation of human rights.
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