Facebook suspended the account of whistleblower who exposed Cambridge Analytica
I have a personal story from inside facebook to share. and when I shared this story on my facebook my personal facebook was suspended too.<p>5 years ago Facebook recruiter reached out to me and invited me to the W hotel in Chicago. I was very excited -not for the job- but for the opportunity to meet with senior Facebook managers and tell them about an evil thing Facebook does.
Here is the background story:<p>I am Kurdish from Iran. And Iran has many provinces. one of them is called Kurdistan. In Facebook profile section for Hometown you could pick all of the Iranian provinces except Kurdistan.<p>And at first I thought it was a bug. For years and years we submitted bug reports and collected petitions for Facebook they never responded why the Kurdistan province cannot be picked while other provinces could be picked.<p>Till one day, An internal document -guidance- leaked out of Facebook. That explained it all ! One of the pages was talking about Kurdistan. In which they had explained any reference to Kurdistan is considered terrorism. That was on the request of Turkish government.<p>In &quot;Turkey&quot;, the word Kurdistan is forbidden. and many people in Turkey been prisoned for speaking Kurdish. however in &quot;Iran&quot; we officially have a province called &quot;Kurdistan Province). and Iranian government recognizes the name Kurdistan for my homeland. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Provinces_of_Iran" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Provinces_of_Iran</a><p>But Facebook decided to enforce the Turkish government racist rule on other countries that have Kurdistan (Iran, Iraq, Syria...)<p>Also in that leaked guidance memo. Kurdistan flag was considered illegal. And hundreds of Kurdish pages and accounts got banned for having Kurdistan flag.<p>While Kurdish flag is illegal in Turkey. Kurdish flag is officially recognized in the Constitution of Iraq for Kurdistan regional government.<p>So when they invited me to W Hotel to recruit me. I was like yes finally I can meet the people in person. Because as a Kurd I have no importance and they will never respond to me but a software engineer I am pretty attractive on the market.<p>So I asked the question from one of the managers. And told them my story this for years and years I send them emails and nobody got back to me and we made petitions about this so-called bug.<p>He said these things are decided by higher management.<p>I told him how often do you show this disagreement to higher managers or Mark Zuckerburg&#x27;s policies if you have a different opinion. He responded if I disagree with them I wouldn&#x27;t work there.<p>I left the W Hotel in Chicago 5 years ago refusing to proceed with a job on FB. I knew Facebook is on the wrong path. And today I see that prediction coming true.<p>Even today when Turkey committed a massacre in Kurdish city of Afrin, Facebook blocked many voices inside the city who were showing massacres by Turkish government.<p>10 years ago FB came after kurds and you said not my problem. Today they are coming after all of u