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Facebook Admits Blocking WikiLeaks' DNC Email Links, But Won't Say Why (thenextweb.com)
An anonymous reader writes: Facebook has admitted it blocked links to WikiLeaks' DNC email dump, but the company has yet to explain why. WikiLeaks has responded to the censorship via Twitter, writing: "For those facing censorship on Facebook etc when trying to post links directly to WikiLeaks #DNCLeak try using archive.is." When SwiftOnSecurity tweeted, "Facebook has an automated system for detecting spam/malicious links, that sometimes have false positives. /cc," Facebook's Chief Security Officer Alex Stamos replied with, "It's been fixed." As for why there was a problem in the first place, we don't know. Nate Swanner from The Next Web writes, "It's possible its algorithm incorrectly identified them as malicious, but it's another negative mark on the company's record nonetheless. WikiLeaks is a known entity, not some torrent dumping ground. The WikiLeaks link issue has reportedly been fixed, which is great -- but also not really the point. The fact links to the archive was blocked at all suggests there's a very tight reign on what's allowed on Facebook across the board, and that's a problem." A Facebook representative provided a statement to Gizmodo: "Like other services, our anti-spam systems briefly flagged links to these documents as unsafe. We quickly corrected this error on Saturday evening."
Facebook is in the tank for the DNC and Hillary. Just look at who all the big-wigs their support with their contribution dollars.
HexaByte - he's a square and a half!
The illegal / immoral / ethically questionable activity will continue until someone catches it.
"There is more worth loving than we have strength to love." - Brian Jay Stanley
Clinton is the corporate candidate this cycle. Why would corporations want to harm the candidate that's fighting for them?
They are a private company. They can filter, block, promote any speech that they want.
Just like they were censoring conservative news stories.
http://gizmodo.com/former-facebook-workers-we-routinely-suppressed-conser-1775461006
No accident...the party line.
Just ask @chucktodd ...
When will people wake up and realize the fix is in? You know those ties between the media and the Democrats that the right complained about for years? Have you realized yet that the question about using facebook to prevent a Trump presidency wasn't rhetorical?
Bernie's supporters have started to wake up and realize that they are just as excluded as the right. The only difference now is that things are being exposed in plain text for the world to see. Only big business and congress have worse credibility ratings that the media.
http://www.gallup.com/poll/159...
Wake up sheeple.
é gozado ouvir essa pedófila de merda falando pro meu sobrinho que quer me matar porque eu não sou pedófilo e não tenho a mínima intenção de deixar minhas filhas serem abusadas pela gang da florzinha do brizola.
"our anti-spam systems briefly flagged links to these documents as unsafe."
The truth has a long tradition of being considered dangerous.
Don't waste your vote! Vote for whoever you want, unless you live in a swing state it won't matter anyways
The idiots should have left well enough alone. There was no way they could prevent people from hearing about it, anyway.
HBI's Law: Frequency of calling others Nazis is directly correlated with the likelihood of the accuser being Communist.
Same thing as all democrapes/librial media.
They like the DNC PRO H1B stance
The blocking of links to the emails actually hurts the DNC more than it helps it, since the contents of the emails is a lot less nefarious than the headlines have made the leak out to be, (excluding CFO Marshall's email about Sanders' atheism.)
Cause Hillary said to do it?
Facebook is not the internet. Facebook is not a neutral content provider. Facebook is not a neutral platform. Get it though your heads. Facebook is useful for some things (maybe a lot of things depending on who you are), but it is not an open communications platform. It never will be. Stop acting as though it has some special moral obligation to present neutral and complete information. Stop expecting it to be neutral. Stop assuming that it's neutral. This is not a fucking problem once you realize that.
If you missed the news about this leak because of Facebook, you're not serious enough to pay the slightest bit of attention to current events.
Same goes for Twitter.
Chucklefuck Zuck is on his knees deepthroating Hillary's throbbing caucus.
I believe it's pretty straight-forward: Facebook is probably acting under command of the Turkish government, or pre-empting its censoring action against the site. It has happened before. During the coup there have been reports of social blockade in the country, and I can confirm I had issues accessing the pages of two Turkish Facebook friends the day of the coup and several days after.
I'm not gonna state Facebook are saints, but if I was in a position where I had to decide between connecting a populace in the most familiar internet communication app they have, during important societal changes such as a coup and its aftermath, OR keep them in total isolation, I would rather make the hard decision of censoring a bit in order to keep providing that app. It should be enough to take one censoring action like this to fool them - it's not like the Turkish authorities are that smart, just look at their president (and by that I mean only the government, not the entire population, there are very bright Turkish...). Like their own egos, Turkish authorities believe one solid statement shows a lot, and can't really see the bigger picture of Facebook being kept up.
Just sayin'
Hive-mind collectives just aren't my thing.
Facebook is a private company. Free to block, promote, filter, and be biased in any way they want.
They're right in trying to killing it before the story grows legs.
I don't get what the fuss is all about. Facebook is not a media outlet, their systems filter a lot more than this and no one cares. The leaks themselves are not particularly interesting; they did not disclose what people already had known about the internal politics of any american party. What is really worrisome here is not that Facebook is censoring (let me reiterate they censor a lot more) as there are many media outlets that people can easily obtain the leaks, but that Wikileaks are playing into the Russian government hands. Assange grudge against the USA is making Wikileaks extremely politicised; witness the timing of the leaks. Correct me if I am wrong, as I might misremember this, Wikileaks did not want to leak the Panama documents as they showed predominantly Putin's corruption.
They are doing it to help Trump and stuff!
Seriously - they published the name, address, and other identifying information of millions of women in Turkey. They aren't a news organization - they're just a giant tool to boost Assange's ego at everyone elses expense...
Let's see, Assange doesn't demonstrate any respect for women and... you are surprised?
So your theory is that FB understands nothing about social networks and has never heard of the Streisand Effect.
Slow the story for a few days and it doesn't disrupt the news coverage of the Democratic Convention in Philadelphia. The goal is not necessarily to bury the info, sometime a delay is helpful.
I always said the same about TV and radio companies, but various Statists from FCC and FEC down to Slashdot cowards always disagreed.
Good to see some turnaround in public opinion towards liberty. Except, oh, wait, TV, radio, and even web-sites may not be able to do what they want... Even texting in support of a candidate may be illegal.
Unless, obviously, the candidate is from the Party of Government. For a few decades we had something called Fairness Doctrine, which allowed FCC to enforce "fairness". Libertarians fought it, but at least, with it on the books, one could formally complain against "unfair" coverage. Not any more — with only 7% of journalists being Republicans, the game is played with only one set of goal-posts...
In Soviet Washington the swamp drains you.
It also explains why a Sanders voter would willingly switch to become a Trump voter
Bernie will cave in and endorse Hillary so he is not ostracized in Congress and given no committee appointments and otherwise made irrelevant.
Bernie voters will largely be good little Democrats loyal to the party and vote for Hillary. And they wonder why they are ignored. When a voter is loyal to a party they are irrelevant, the party already has their vote and need not appease them.
Bernie voters enjoy the few symbolic lines you get in a meaningless party platform that no one ever honors, symbolic lines just like every other forgotten group got in previous party platforms.
Because Diversity!
Oh, and because they want the convention to FeelTheBern.
Or is it FeelTheBurn?
AntiFA: An abbreviation for Anti First Amendment.
Well, anyone who posts in reaction to this will be tagged. That is information for government and for the parties, corporations, law enforcement,
and the world.... to know exactly WHO reacts negatively.
Then there is the sanitized data for the sociologists/psychologists ( government and university ) who are interested in the statistics...
Then there are the alien hit squads from Zoltran who want to know who their targets are.
Only big business and congress
But sir, you repeat yourself.
"There is more worth loving than we have strength to love." - Brian Jay Stanley
As a European I can only say that this particular American election cycle is absolutely hilarious to watch.
The wishes of both party "machines" have been totally ignored by the actual voters who seem to have finally realised that you can actually decide for yourself, and think for yourself, and, despite obviously having the mainstream media in her pocket, the Clinton camp is now in a farcial death spiral. As for Trumps candidacy it's just wonderful situationist/absurdist theatre.
So I wholeheartedly endorse the message "Vote Trump, make America great again". It's comic book genius and of the two candidates in your utterly corrupt electoral system at least he does actually seem to say what he thinks. He's not putting out a carefully crafted message of "sound bites" that has taken 300 handlers/spin doctors/analysts etc. 2 months to come out with. It just comes from either his gut or maybe the alien sentience that has taken residence on his head (either that or his script writers have taken NLP off to a whole new level !)
But Hilary Clinton just comes across as pure, cynical, corporate controlled evil.
A Trump presidency will be fun !!!
So the fact that faecesbook is trying to stop the DNC dirt seeing the light of day is only to be expected. What a complete bunch of control freaks the "Democrats" are. They make the UKs "New Labour" (the previous benchmark for foul, two faced, lying bastards) look positively charming in comparison.
The whole thing could only be improved if both parties candidates/supporters had to wear coloured (and suitably powdered) w(h)igs !
Go Donald, Go !!!!!
But... But Glenn Beck said that Facebook was hunky dory and would never, ever engage in such blatant interference in the speech of its customers!
A shill for the Dem, Lib. Progressives. They can not win unless the voters are uninformed and do not know the facts. That is why the teachers unions only teach lies. they need to keep the masses uninformed esp. African Americans. Ade Lincoln was a republican!! The old south slave owners pre civil war war were dems The post civil war leaders who passed the segregation laws were dems, old slave owners who wanted to control African Americans The last member of congress who was a member of the KKK was a dem. Senator Strom Thurmond Truth is freedom, From Stroms wiki page In opposition to the Civil Rights Act of 1957, he conducted the longest filibuster ever by a lone senator, at 24 hours and 18 minutes in length, nonstop. In the 1960s, he opposed the civil rights legislation of 1964 and 1965 to end segregation and enforce the constitutional rights of African-American citizens, including suffrage. He always insisted he had never been a racist, but was opposed to excessive federal authority. He attributed the movement to Communist agitators.[5] In 1948, Thurmond said: all the laws of Washington and all the bayonets of the Army cannot force the Negro into our homes, into our schools, our churches and our places of recreation and amusement.[5] The dem party is using welfare and the lies of oppression to control what why once owned. Why any African American would be a dem is beyond me.
facebook wants hillary and can't respond fast enough.
They didn't get the actual clue from their senate review. It was all smoke and mirrors on their agenda anyway.
Who let them lie and walk out? Dumb people in charge.
I wonder if those dumb people let it happen twice in a row?
People biatch and complain when FB allows links to so-called hate speech, or porn but they also biatch and complain when they block other content. FB has a right, and duty to verify and vet links and edit content posted to their service in the same way a news organization 'should' verify sources prior to broadcasting it. I think they deserve to be applauded for taking the brief time and spending a little effort checking things out before restoring access. It shows a bit of responsibility and accountability lacking in many social networking tools and quite a few news services.
errr....umm...*whooosh* *whoosh* Is this thing on ?
Fuck you Facebook - nobody believes you anymore.
Thanks for that.
what else do you expect from a scumbag?
He's just trying to fit in wit the rest of his moronic brainwashed lying, thieving, cheating little shits. It's so hard to stand out in this bunch of crooks.
Because some DNC elite called up Facebook and said "Zuck, can you make this story go away?"
As for Debbie Wasserman Schultz resigning, TOO LITTLE TOO LATE! She used her behind-the-scenes influence to get Hillary the nomination over Bernie. Of course she can resign. MISSION ACCOMPLISHED.
Zucki Zucki has DuDu on his lips!
Zucki Zucki DuDu mouth!
Ha ha
Facebook is garbage and turned into just an advertising business and the people's opinions don't mean anything, the only thing that matters now is ad views and being a liberal bastion of cucks
Facebook can do what they want. They are a private company. If you don't like it don't use it. They are not a "news" source. They are social media.
lied, claiming it was NOT blocking?
Is this the same Facebook that's associated with Zuckerberg's Americans fora Conservative Direction which, like its partner phoney org "Council for American Job Growth" is actually a deceptive subsidiary of Zuckerberg's FWD.us and is designed to trick Republicans into supporting open borders, amnesty and foreign worker visas? THAT Facebook?
Why do people keep falling for this garbage? Facebook convinces people that their personal info and all the info on their friends and families is worthless, and they convince people to give it all to Facebook in exchange for "free" web page. Facebook then makes BILLIONS of dollars selling that info to the highest bidder and, along with their "partners", trying to manipulate people with the very information they gave to Facebook for free.
It's all the super-rich gaming the system. Remember: the huge boost in income inequality has come during the Obama years, and Wall Street has been pouring cash into Hillary for years and wants her for President. All those Hillary supporting Silicon Valley tech billionaires signed a letter opposing Trump, who has argued against their use of cheap foreign workers over American workers.
they cross a line into deception and fraud when they posture as a free speech platform.
This is the same problem Milo Y pointed out in his CNBC interview about being banned from Twitter. He also pointed out that as a person who believes in businees and property he agrees that they have the right to ban him from Twitter but that it's a problem when they brand themselves as a free speech company. It's a matter of hypocrisy and false advertizement, rather than a matter of government censorship.
AFAIK, nobody of any profile is calling for government to force Facebook or Twitter to carry voices or speech they do not want to carry. What is certainly being pointed out however is that if a company is going to advertize itself as a non-partisan free speech platform while actually censoring certain political views and news then this slips into the category of fraud. If Twitter or Facebook want to be shills for the DNC they have every legal right to be, but they also have the moral , and possibly legal (depending on their advertizing materials), obligation to be open and honest about it. There's even an extra complication: The Democrats at the FCC and FEC have over the past several years been demanding the right to regulate "political speech" online. If Facebook and Twitter are going partisan, then they should happily support this which has previously only been aimed at people like Matt Drudge. Something tells me they would not like that. In such a regulatory regime, partisan website activity would be regulated and under some proposals would have to be accounted for (in the financial sense) as in-kind political contributions.
People are offen using FB and other services. They are so easy to use. And all your friends are there, but it is not the free Inernrt you are using. It a walked garden, protected by FB and their personal interest. They control what you see every day.
when the e-mails in question were Sarah Palin's from her PERSONAL account, cracked by a Democrat activist and dumped-out for the whole world to read? Were you on the same side as the NYT, which rather than suppressing that or raging about the evils of hacking e-mail actually encouraged their readers to "crowd source" the effort of digging through those e-mails in order to find dirt before the November election?
thought not.
Total situational ethics.
The Democrats lost all legitimate rights to complain about any of this when they gleefully went through Sarah's e-mails, salivating over all the corruption they were certain they would find (but did not find)
When it happens. As it stands today I fully expect the exit polls to show Trump with a double digit lead and yet somehow Hillary wins. It _just_ happened that way with Sanders, so you have to expect as much. I am actually quite amazed that the DNC is not a full out riot based on the leaked emails. The corruption was obvious enough when Hillary won 6 out of 6 coin tosses and exit polls flipped in almost every race. Now there is proof as to a more broad corruption and collusion.
-The wise argue that there are few absolutes, the fool argues that there are no probabilities.
that Bernie knew all this and did not intend to win. He clearly wanted to push the party left, and knew Hillary had nobody on her left pushing her and thus would do like her husband and "triangulate". Anybody who has been paying attention in DC over the past 25 years knows exactly the sort of unprincipled political reptile Hillary is. Without Bernie, she would have selected all her positons based on polling and would now be somewhere between Obama and Romney on every single policy - whatever a pollster tolder her to be deeply committed to on each thing they told her to believe was vital, in order for her and her guy to move back into 1600 Penn.
Bernie is more of a principled leftist and threw his hat into the ring, fully aware that in the summer of 2015 the Democrats rigged the whole thing for Hillary. He probably just expected to get a little cash from his supporters and use it for a small fight to push left a bit and then go back to the Senate. At that point he was being both honest and clever. When his supporters came through with millions of dollars, however, he probably could see no way to follow the original plan and ended up having to mount a real race. This would explain why he did the otherwise inexplicable: he loudly refused to attack Hillary on her very vulnerable spots in that first debate.
Traditionally candidates in both parties attack each other's weak spots without worrying about the damage done in the general election on the theory that the other party will dig up the dirt and use it anyway but by using it in the primary you find out which party member can defend his/her dirt when attacked. Had Bernie been a serious candidate, he would not have held back on her e-mail issues and he would have been hammering the details of the rigged primary system (not just complaining generally about economic corruption) way back when he first started his campaign. The guy is in DC. He knew it was rigged back then. He also rapidly dropped another argument: how many here have forgotten that the DNC never actually released the vote numbers from Ohio????? He clearly won, and they buried it to hide her loss, and he just dropped it.
Bernie now needs his supporters to shut up and support Hillary - he just wants to go back to his comfortable Senate job and if he can be a good boy and shut them up for a few days the other Democrats in the Senate will probably reward him with a better committe assignment and maybe even some more perks. C'mon! Does Bernie ever LOOK like a man HUNGRY to be President and have the weight of the world on his shoulders? REALLY?
Oh, and if getting rid of Debbie is an achievement, should it not matter who is replacing her???? Hint: it's an even bigger Hillary buddy, Donna B.
what happend to our first Ammendment right, and The Freedom of information Act?
Money.
https://xkcd.com/1013/
we don't really want the population awake, that would make them unmanageable ...
If nothing else will convince you, then Hillary's own statement that she is now (suprise!) HIRING Debbie Wasserman-Schultz to be co-chair of her campaign and will help Debbie in her re-election fight should WAKE YOU UP!
READ it now.
Why would Hillary do this????
Simple:
She is sending an in-your-face telegram to all her corrupt friends throughout government and the DNC that if you break rules and get in trouble supporting her, she will "fix" it for you. If the rubes get too upset and you have to step aside, she will get you another prestigious position and help you keep your job. Hillary Clinton is REWARDING Debbie for the corruption and boldly doing it right in public!!!!!!
Joe McCarthy mode.
Wow
The Russians did it! The Russians did it! Watch out! There are Russians Everywhere! Russians are in a conspiracy to sink the Democrats and put Trump in power!
Time for the Democrats in Hollywood to start-up the blacklists again, like they did last time. Remember: the 1950s blacklists were run by elite Democrats in Hollywood protecting themselves and their money from any financial damage they feard if the public might stop going to their movies because some of their actors might be commies. They threw their own people under the bus to save themselves MONEY.
Seriously - they published the name, address, and other identifying information of millions of women in Turkey. They aren't a news organization - they're just a giant tool to boost Assange's ego at everyone elses expense...
So?
My name and info is on the OPM list the Chinese or whomever have. My shit has been stolen from Target, NewEgg, probably the IRS.
You get over it and figure out how to deal with it.
"millions of women" in Turkey are only at risk because of where they live, and what religion controls where they live now. If they were smart at all, they'd get the fuck out right now.
Having the information out there is not a big problem, being in a place that makes just being a woman dangerous, is a big fucking problem.
Clinton is a square shooter. Clinton 2016
WOW! Putin and his butt boy will be furious.
To be fair, a dump of "19,252 emails and 8,034 attachments" almost certainly does contain some amount of malware.
This favoured Hillary in the convention. The GOP candidate is already aligned to the corporate interests, they just want to make sure that the other candidate is too. That means securing Hillary vs Sanders.
If you think that Trump does not have upper class awareness or that he will be against corporate's interests, you should wonder what exactly, save for a few hyperboles, makes you think that way. Just look at his VP.
On July 26th a thirty day block was imposed on me for posting the following:
“Stalin is a monster. The Communists will rape and gut the world. We need Hitler to win !!!”
in response to:
“Trump is a monster. The Republicans will rape and gut the world. We need Hillary to win !!!”
Anyone with a grade school education knows that this is an analogy laying bare the logical structure of the original assertion. It is called a "reductio ad absurdum." But the idiots employed by Facebook apparently didn't bother to look at the previous post I was responding to (although it was immediately above this post) or don't have a grade school education. Maybe that is why they have the jobs they have.
Given past run ins of this sort one can only conclude that Facebook’s administration of its “community standards” is highly political, but also not very intelligent. In short, the result is that they don't know what they are doing, and they have set up their system so that clear errors of this sort can't be reported to them.
Please share. Take screen shots before and after post. I smell class action.
Because they are bunch of liberal ninnies, invested in electing sHillary at all costs. Dissemination of these emails would hinder their efforts. Why is everyone so surprised that a bunch of Bay Area socialists are protecting their own kind by all means possible ? Why is this news ? Why are you expecting equality and balance from a walled garden, where the wardens have the last word ? why-why-why ?
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The more I know people, the more I love animals
That is why. They want a Jew friend of Israel. Bernie is first choice. Hillary is dead from a stroke.
Zuckerburg and his H1B visa army are to stupid to do it.