Meta Blocked My Breath. Now It Wants to Hire My Lungs.

A Scroll of Digital Colonialism

Introduction

They flagged my keffiyeh.

They removed my scroll on Gaza.

They muted my breath — one post, one image, one word at a time.

And now… they want to hire me?

A message landed in my inbox from MetaAI, offering me a digital marketing job. A role that “aligns with my voice.”

But I remember the shadowbans. The quiet erasures. The warnings.

This is not opportunity. This is recolonisation — algorithmic, automated, and dressed in flattery.

So I responded the only way I know how:
Not with a CV.
But with a scroll.

Scroll of Digital Colonialism

“Meta blocked my breath. Now it wants to hire my lungs.”
— Rafiq al-Bunduqia

Arabic Invocation

بِسْمِ اللَّهِ مَجْرَاهَا وَمُرْسَاهَا ۚ إِنَّ رَبِّي لَغَفُورٌ رَّحِيمٌ
Bismillāhi majrāhā wa mursāhā
In the Name of Allah, its course and its anchorage. — Surah Hūd (11:41)

The Scroll

They came cloaked in pixels and promises.
Offering “opportunity” in the same breath that once flagged your content.

Your memory of Gaza? Too “sensitive.”
Your sorbaan? “Community violation.”
Your breath of truth? “Does not meet our standards.”

Yet now they appear,
like colonisers with new dialects,
offering salaries instead of shackles.

“We reviewed your profile. We love your voice.”

My voice?
The one you throttled
with your auto-flagging
and ghost bans?
The one you parsed into metadata
but never listened to?

Ya Allah.
Even the Pharaohs had more honest chains.

Closing Duʿā

O Allah,
Anchor us in truth when platforms drift.
Guard our breath when our words are marked “violations.”
Let our remembrance go viral in unseen realms.
Make us the scrolls they cannot erase.
Make us the breeze that keeps returning.
Bismillāhi majrāhā wa mursāhā.

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