Interesting tidbit: If you try to refer to this article with a link on Facebook, they will block you from posting it.
Please report it to them - the more reports the better.
why would anyone report it? Facebook owes me nothing
EU data protection law after the Safe Harbour judgment
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Re: EU data protection law after the Safe Harbour judgment
#42Earlier quoted context omitted.
Very intresting. This is what I've got when trying to post it on facebook: You can't post this because it has a blocked link The content you're trying to share includes a link that our security systems detected to be unsafe: http://eulawanalysis.blogspot.com/2015/10/the-partys-over-eu... Please remove this link to continue. If you think you're seeing this by mistake, please let us know.
And other entries from the same guy can be posted without any problems. FB is saying that their "security systems" detected the link "to be unsafe", but comparing source of that particular post with other posts, I don't see any significant difference (except for the text, of course). Sounds like the text itself contains information which is unsafe (for FB).
> And other entries from the same guy can be posted without any problems.
Well, other entries don't bad-mouth Facebook.
Re: EU data protection law after the Safe Harbour judgment
#43Interesting tidbit: If you try to refer to this article with a link on Facebook, they will block you from posting it.
It's quite telling that FB would block links that talk about FB in a negative way. The one true test of the long term viability of any medium is whether or not that medium is managed hands-off to the point that discussing the medium itself critically does not lead to the discussion being squelched. FB it appears does not pass that test.
It would be interesting to see what other links that discuss FB can not be shared there and even more interesting at what level of FB the directive initiating this blockage originated.
Re: EU data protection law after the Safe Harbour judgment
#44Interesting tidbit: If you try to refer to this article with a link on Facebook, they will block you from posting it.
I also cannot share this on FB. Amazing. The fact that FB is censoring this content deserves its own HN exposure. It is an article about international law with nothing offensive, but FB blocks it.... this is going further than I'd have thought FB would ever do. The future doesn't look so bright for social media.
You are surprised facebook is censoring content on a massive scale? Wake up sheeple! Move to a decentralized, open-source platform like diaspora* if that type of thing bothers you, do away with facebook like we dropped myspace
Re: EU data protection law after the Safe Harbour judgment
#45Re: EU data protection law after the Safe Harbour judgment
#46Interesting tidbit: If you try to refer to this article with a link on Facebook, they will block you from posting it.
You could try this link instead.
https://www.blogger.com/feeds/8704899696538705849/posts/defa...
It will give the contents of the blog, but not sure how modern browsers will render it as is. However if you save to a file with an .html extension then open in browser it should look fine.
Using .co.uk extension on the blogspot URL instead of .com may also work, as another commenter has suggested.
Re: EU data protection law after the Safe Harbour judgment
#47Earlier quoted context omitted.
I also cannot share this on FB. Amazing. The fact that FB is censoring this content deserves its own HN exposure. It is an article about international law with nothing offensive, but FB blocks it.... this is going further than I'd have thought FB would ever do. The future doesn't look so bright for social media.
You are surprised facebook is censoring content on a massive scale? Wake up sheeple! Move to a decentralized, open-source platform like diaspora* if that type of thing bothers you, do away with facebook like we dropped myspace
I can understand some degree of censorship like pornography, very explicit violence, etc. But this is just an article about a very public issue. FB has no problems with other divisive issues getting shared, so I'm quite surprised to see this level of blatant censorship on this particular article.
Re: EU data protection law after the Safe Harbour judgment
#48Interesting tidbit: If you try to refer to this article with a link on Facebook, they will block you from posting it.
I filed a bug. I don't know why the spam filters picked this up but it was not intentional. EDIT: Fixed
Re: EU data protection law after the Safe Harbour judgment
#49Earlier quoted context omitted.
This isn't just an impediment to businesses that deal in selling "sensitive private data". It's an impediment to any business that has any data about its customers (e.g. delivery addresses). Unless I'm misunderstanding it?
Then treat personal data as radioactive. Don't store it. Don't collect it if you don't need it. If you have it, try to get rid of it, and delete it ASAP.
That's not practical.
"I haven't received my package!"
"Well, we sent it 2 weeks ago"
"What address did you send it to?"
"Don't know"
EDIT: Also, "Why does this shopping website require me to re-input the shipping address every time I want to buy something? Why can't it remember it like every website used to?"
Re: EU data protection law after the Safe Harbour judgment
#50Interesting tidbit: If you try to refer to this article with a link on Facebook, they will block you from posting it.
I managed to post through a shortener with no issues
And then I managed to post the plain URL.... maybe they've unblocked it, or it's not blocked from within the EU.