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That post prompted thousands of comments in a matter of hours on Facebook's site governance page.
There was not, and the company announced that it would go ahead and adopt the proposed amendments to its site governance and data use policy.
"Given these efforts and the subsequent turnout," Elliot Schrage, its vice president of communications and public policy, wrote on the site, "We plan to review this process to determine how to maximize our ability to promote user engagement and participation in our site governance process in the future".
This is only the second site governance vote in the history of Facebook.
Most recently, Facebook proposed some changes to its site governance process and data use policy.
Then when Facebook had its last site governance change proposal in June, Schrems was ready.
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With an established network of sites, governance, and a strategy in place, the main limbs, or programs, of the EIP grew in 4 broad thematic areas: invasive bacterial diseases; foodborne diseases; health care associated infections; and influenza.
So few Facebook users took part in Facebook's last site-governance voting, in which users were asked to approve or disapprove a number of workaday changes to its policy, that it resulted in the eventual shutdown of the site-governance balloting itself.
Facebook is using the same community commenting process it used during its site-wide Terms of Service fiasco before it officially rolls out the new terms, giving users three days to voice their thoughts on the site's Governance site.
Today Facebook will send its largest email blast to date, informing all 1 billion users that it's proposing to modify the site's governance structure and remove the ability for users to vote on changes.
On the other hand, allowing highly vocal minorities that don't represent the average Facebook user to have such a heavy hand in the site's governance isn't working.
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