Facebook's strange new 'supreme court' is an example other tech giants should follow

Facebook's long-awaited "supreme court" is beginning to take shape. If that seems like a strange sentence, it’s only because social networks have been dictatorships for so long.

On Tuesday, Facebook published a draft charter for its “Oversight Board”, a new independent body which will serve as a final court of appeals for Facebook users who are punished by the company’s moderators. Facebook claims that it will treat the Board’s decisions as binding: if it says your sexually suggestive selfie should be restored, then restored it will be, no matter what Mark Zuckerberg thinks.

Thanks to the charter we now know that the Board will have around 40 members and hear cases in panels of five.

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