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Facebook admits it blocked WikiLeaks links, but won't say why
- chinathrow 10y agoThere have been reports of malware found within leaked mails hosted by WikiLeaks - so that might be one reason for the blocking.
- jandrese 10y agoI've had malware show up in Google searches too, but that doesn't mean I'm going to block Google. Any site that is big enough and hosts user content is eventually going to have malware in it somewhere.
- zzzcpan 10y agoOr maybe malware is yet another way to cover up government censorship.
- iancarroll 10y agoOr you could download the malware yourself.
- iancarroll 10y agoI don't know if WikiLeaks tries to remove malware from its dumps, but Google definitely tries to block malicious sites.
- tinus_hn 10y agoGoogle search result pages are not static resources that can be spidered. Wikileaks' content is.
- DKnoll 10y agoGoogle has flagged itself for malware before so it's not totally unreasonable (but it is pointless) to do so.
- J_Darnley 10y agoWhich would be a nice excuse for Facebook so I am surprised that they haven't used it.
- beedogs 10y agoThey would surely have noted that as the reason if it were the reason.
- tomohawk 10y agoAlso appears to be censored here. Story is newer, has more points, and more comments than many other stories of higher rank.
- belovedeagle 10y agoThis isn't reddit; sorting doesn't work like that.