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FACEBOOK has started censoring private messages sent between users to block out internet nasties.
If links to certain websites are detected in a private message, the user is shown a warning:
“This message contains blocked content. Some content in this message has been reported as abusive by Facebook users.”
Their message is then scrapped.
It was first reported the block applied to The Pirate Bay, one of the world’s largest file-sharing websites that recently came out on the wrong side of a legal battle with music and movie industry groups.
Links to The Pirate Bay’s homepage were reportedly accepted, but links to specific pages within the site were blocked.
When we tested it today, that was still happening. However links to other file-sharing sites were fine:
The Pirate Bay â€" BLOCKED
Mininova â€" OK
Demonoid â€" OK
BTJunkie â€" OK
Links to at least one major pornography site were also blocked.
Wired reported that the censorship may place Facebook in breach of US wiretapping laws.
However Facebook chief privacy officer Chris Kelly said the site had a legal right to censor messages, because users had agreed not to send “spammy, illegal, threatening or harassing” content in accepting the site’s terms of use.
Check TorrentFreak and Wired for more info.
Have you noticed links to any other sites being blocked?
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