Maybe it's related to enforcement of the 764.3(a)(2) of the EAR "Denial" (or equivalent).
Here's a list of denied entities: https://bis.doc.gov/dpl/dpl.txt
Facebook Messenger blocks messages containing “di.wang”
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#32I served with a guy named Hung Wang. He complained that Microsoft thought it was an obscene name and couldn't make it his Xbox Live gamertag.
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#33Not 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 prop…
It's not even guaranteed it's for state censorship. FB has a business interest in tagging and blocking "Hey, check out my new hot pics on scamsite.stealyourdata.haxx"-type messages because they harm their users.
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#34Profanity filter running amok? See the old https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scunthorpe_problem
Does fb messenger have a profanity filter?
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#35Earlier quoted context omitted.
The market (in both the "stock" and "free people choosing their service providers" senses) seems to think so.
Imo this is more like the case where the market/money reflects the opinion of the 1%.
Facebook's 2.9 billion monthly actives aren't the 1% in any meaningful definition of the numbers.
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#36Censorship is cool when cool new tech companies are doing it.
One thing I have noticed is that a lot of those speaking out against censorship themselves have no problem censoring polite comments in their own comment sections.
Wonder why that is?
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#37Earlier quoted context omitted.
It's not even guaranteed it's for state censorship. FB has a business interest in tagging and blocking "Hey, check out my new hot pics on scamsite.stealyourdata.haxx"-type messages because they harm their users.
FB has been doing political censorship for over a decade. First they started with torrent links, then anarchist propaganda. Since they introduced shadow-banning i haven't really followed the latest developments, but they definitely have been collaborating with other entities on what to censor.
Torrent links are a viral vector and I'd expect them to be censored for the same reason the "hot pics" site would be censored... Potential compromise of user machines.
I'd be interested in what anarchist propaganda has been censored. Anecdotally, I see a ton of it on FB (a side-effect of being friends with anarchists), but I wouldn't be surprised if some things get dropped.
I've gotten smacked for sharing nudity (including, hilariously, reshares of my own Facebook posts from the past) and after January 6th, the service got very skittish about talk of violence and government (for I think obvious reasons... One of the few things that could end the party for Zuckerberg would be landing in prison for the very ambiguous charge "aiding sedition"). I have no doubt they engage in politically-related censorship... But we have no evidence that's what happened here, because (like any large public-facing messaging service that doesn't have a "user beware" attitude) they have those systems anyway for dealing with scammers and trolls.
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#38Isn't messenger supposed to be encrypted??
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#39Isn't messenger supposed to be encrypted??
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#40Isn't messenger supposed to be encrypted??
No, never was.