I am getting a "this page is down" twitter error on the link (from the UK), which is also unusual.
Facebook Messenger blocks messages containing “di.wang”
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#12Seems to work now. Or it might be geographically constrained (I’m in Poland).
Works for me in the UK
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#13Not working for me (Turkey)
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#14That is the main problem? Really? Not that facebook reads your messages, processes them, do what they want with them?
Use a secure messenger, but not facebook.
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#15Censorship is cool when cool new tech companies are doing it.
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#16That is the main problem? Really? Not that facebook reads your messages, processes them, do what they want with them? Use a secure messenger, but not facebook.
> Use a secure messenger, but not facebook.
Nit, this sentence implies that Facebook is a secure messenger, which it isn't. "Use a secure messenger, not Facebook."
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#17Is this some kind of a plot to motivate people to install Facebook Messenger just to try to reproduce a bug?
Sorry guys, still not gonna try it ;)
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#18Not sure why it is suprising? If the state wants something to be censored, corporations have very little room to wiggle out. It's funny how Overton window is moving. I remember in the 90s, the mere suggestion that the west could experience Soviet level of censorship was considered deluded conspiracy thinking. Now the population is very much okay with censorship as long as content they don't like is censored. But propaganda machine works well at shaping what general public like and don't like, so they can implant the idea of what people should dislike and then censor it - people will applaud.
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#19Would be curious to hear how something like this happens. My first guess was that the domain was part of a FB deny list but I don't see why it would. It's still up for grabs https://www.whois.com/whois/di.wang and I can't find any history on https://web.archive.org/web/*/http://di.wang/\\ *. Context is that this is part of an email address and my friend can't send their email anymore.
My guess is that facebook engineer named 'di wang' of which at least one exists[1] was attempting to ensure the blocklist functionality worked in production. Then again, the employee I found is an engineer in the ads department, so blocklist functionality seems unlikely for him to be working on. [1] see linkedin. I have removed the link to an employees profile who may or may not be relevant and is not a public figure…
> Then again, the employee I found is an engineer in the ads department, so blocklist functionality seems unlikely for him to be working on
... Unless there's also a blocklist for ads, and someone misconfigured the messenger list to pull that one in also. I've seen similar errors in other companies.
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