Facebook Filtering #Kurdish Content, Closing Accounts
By WLADIMIR van WILGENBURG, 24/02/2012
AMSTERDAM, the Netherlands —A former employee of the company oDesk, who used to filter out offensive content on Facebook, has leaked the website’s secret rulebook of detailed instructions, which include blocking any content related to Kurdistan and the PKK.
The British Daily Mail reports that aggrieved Moroccan worker Amine Derkaou leaked the information to the U.S. gossip website Gawker.
The rulebook bans all attacks on the founder of Turkey, Kemal Atatürk, along with maps of Kurdistan and the burning of Turkish flags.
Furthermore, indications of supporting PKK, or PKK leader Abdullah Öcalan, will result in IP or Facebook account blocks, unless they are clearly against the PKK or Öcalan.
A team of about 50 people from all over the third world — Mexico, Turkey, India and the Philippines — work to moderate Facebook content.
Kurds on Twitter were outraged by the leaked rulebook, and suggested that Turks employed by the company were behind the censoring. “[I] got banned too for 3 days last week after posting a picture of Ocalan … FB’s terms are BS and too broad,” wrote Kurdish-American student Mohammed Hesen on Twitter.
Pro-Kurdish activist and blogger Mark Campbell, who maintains the blog Hevallo, claimed he was banned for 24 hours for having an avatar picture, saying “I am KCK” (Kurdistan Communities Union).
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