Facebook Allows Turkish Government to Set the Censorship Rules

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11 years ago

Facebook has been blocking and banning users for posting Kurdish or anti-Turkish material. Many screenshots exists of Facebook notifying people for such. You can insult any single historical figure that you like on Facebook except one: Turkey's founder Mustafa Kemal 'Ataturk'. However, he should not receive special treatment and be protected from criticism, but rather should be treated and examined like everyone else.

In order to be accessible within Turkey, Facebook has allowed the repressive Turkish government to set the censorship rules for billions of their users all around the globe. Facebook censors Kurds on behalf of Turkey. To show the world how unjust this policy is, this group https://www.facebook.com/groups/CensoringKurds/ discusses Facebook's censorship policy as it relates to Kurds and how to get Facebook to change its unfair and discriminatory policy.

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