A recent incident in Turkey serves as an example of how this works. Following court orders in Turkey last week, Facebook blocked pages depicting the Muslim religious figure Mohammed.
It’s not just developing nations that request Facebook to block access to posts. The list of places in which Facebook engages in this type of censorship includes nations typically viewed as more progressive: France, Germany and the United Kingdom.
Facebook generally portrays itself as a company that defends a user’s ability to speak freely. In 2012, CEO Mark Zuckerberg wrote to investors that the social media platform will help people’s voices “increase in number and volume” and pressure political leaders to side with free speech.
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