Facebook has long been criticized by free speech activists for barring images of breast feeding and deleting accounts created by Palestinian resistance groups, but since it is a private company, Facebook is allowed to obstruct virtually any content it wishes.
The list [of censored content] also shines a light on Facebook’s darker underbelly: how it uses third-world laborers to police first-world content.
Amine Derkaoui, the 21-year-old Moroccan who leaked the document, claimed he was hired by a firm Facebook uses to outsource content policing, only to be paid $1 an hour for his efforts.
“They are just exploiting the third world,” he told Gawker.

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