When Facebook prides itself on doing justice

Facebook has decided: Donald Trump will remain deprived of his accounts on the social network for a long time yet.

This is what Facebook's Supervisory Board decided.

It is in fact a parody of the Court of Justice that was set up years ago by Mark Zuckerberg, the founder of the giant social network, to settle disputes between the company and its users.

Facebook and its subsidiary Instagram had deleted the accounts after the occupation of the Capitol by its supporters.

And Twitter had followed.

All this on the grounds that the former President of the United States had fueled the violence of the demonstrators.

Which is absolutely indisputable.

Well, the only correction made by the Supervisory Board: the suspension cannot be final, it would not be "appropriate".

It is nicely said, isn't it: it is not "appropriate".

You know the famous expression, a little overused: "I have confidence in the justice of my country".

Nicolas Beytout, he does not trust the supranational justice of Facebook.

Are we talking about the Court of Justice and delivering justice?

It is not Nicolas Beytout who says it, but Mark Zuckerberg himself. By announcing the creation of this thing made up of forty lawyers from all over the world, the boss of Facebook greeted a new Supreme Court, named after the highest court in the American judicial hierarchy. Wow, as they say over there. What a responsibility! And above all, what power for this body whose decisions are final and cannot be challenged on appeal. So here are companies, the Gafa, economically overpowering and regularly accused (rightly) of crushing competition, giants who plan to create their own currency, who arrogate to themselves the absolute power to control your word or to deprive you of freedom of expression on their networks,and who are now beginning to do themselves justice. It's freezing.

Except that, in this episode of the Capitol, the excesses of Donald Trump are obvious.

Of course, the character was playing a dangerous, even toxic game. But there is justice (true) for it. There is a Supreme Court, a real one. Justice is a pillar of democracies, and it is not a few dozen people, chosen who knows how (however qualified and competent they may be) who can claim to speak the law and silence anyone. What just happened in the United States, this way of mimicking justice, may not seem very serious. After all, it's true that Trump has been beaten on a regular basis, is brooding over his revenge, and that a period of media fasting is surely good for everyone. But what will happen when the rules of Facebook or Instagram change? Who will designate the one who has the right or not to express his opinions? If it is the company, and it alone,according to his current interests, and under the control of a usurped Supreme Court, then we have to worry.