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I was not aware that Facebook blocked users from posting links to specific domains. Is the list made public anywhere?

• z9e 6y ago
  I heard they are doing it with Bitchute now, I wonder if there’s an actual list somewhere as well.
• easton 6y ago
  It's not a public blacklist, but this thingy[0] from another comment seems to tell you what's up with a specific site if you give it a URL. At least, I think it does, since you have to sign in with Facebook. 0: https://developers.facebook.com/tools/debug/ https://developers.facebook.com/tools/debug/
• seesawtron 6y ago
  Sure, they block most of the porn websites or mirror websites hosting copyright content from posts or private messages.
• strstr 6y ago
  This is typically used for anti-spam/anti-malware. FB has a lot of automation to try to stop obviously malicious content. Just, sometimes, it hits things that aren't malicious. I'm most familiar with the malicious links that, when you click them, cause you to spam your friends with the same link. People don't notice this automation exists, except when it doesn't work. Then they either complain "Why didn't XYZ get caught! This is obviously spam! I could write better automation." or "OMG they banned dreamwidth!". It's possible they extended this (or something similar) to filter out sites with hate speech/"community guideline violations". And in that case some sub-domain of dreamwidth posted something horrible. And then the automation slammed the hammer on the whole domain.