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Instagram blocks Kamalaharris.info in private messages

38 points by deathhand 6y ago

Currently unable to private message the url https://kamalaharris.info/ in either FB or Instagram.

treeman79 6y ago
“The past never had been altered. Oceania was at war with Eastasia. Oceania had always been at war with Eastasia.”
ccffpphh 6y ago
Can confirm, just tried it myself and it hasn't gone through at all. Been several minutes.
- xvedejas 6y ago
  On FB messenger, I'm immediately met with a message of "Your message couldn't be shared, because this link goes against our Community Standards"
  - chrischen 6y ago
    They may as well have replaced "Community Standards" with "Social Harmony" (the rhetoric of China).
googthrowaway42 6y ago
Considering the amount of non-Americans that work at Facebook is this not foreign election interference?
zaroth 6y ago
Some might call this election interference. It’s almost impressive this site is even on their radar.
chrischen 6y ago
No problem, we can just a VPN to access the free social network of the east: TikTok.
insickness 6y ago
I'm reading joebiden.info is blocked as well.
adammichaelc 6y ago
I tried it on FB messenger and it worked
- treeman79 6y ago
  I got an instant unable to send
cooper12 6y ago
That site claims to be "self-funded" and by "an American citizen" (singular), yet it's very obvious this was made by a decently funded team. It's very well-designed, comes with a slogan, each point has a summary header, details, and a citation, juxtaposition with professional photographs of Harris laughing, and then a disclaimer at the bottom clearly vetted by lawyers. Oh, and there's even a link to a sister site for Biden, complete with a storefront with more catchy slogans on t-shirts. Highly suspicious to say the least. I wonder who's behind it.
- kyleee 6y ago
  Does that mean it's worthy of being censored?
  - cincinnatus 6y ago
    It does if it is foreign election interference. We live in complicated times.
- gabruoy 6y ago
  While I don't remember his username, the person who set up joebiden.info site was an active user of thedonald.win (formerly reddit's /r/The_Donald), and promoted it there and answered questions back during the primarys. Surely since his site exploded in popularity he's gotten some help though.
- Ancapistani 6y ago
  HN is a site populated largely by people with the exact skills necessary to make something like this, solo, in a relatively short time frame. I see absolutely nothing that would lead me to believe it’s anything but one individual’s project that they happen to be passionate about. I first saw it a couple of days ago and realized that if that domain was available, others would be. They were - I ended up with a half dozen or so great domains relevant to this election and am in the process of putting together a series of sites targeted to specific aspects of the candidates’ publicly espoused beliefs and actions. The hardest part is writing content in a way that is reasonably objective and with proper sources. Actually building the sites will be fairly trivial - grab a template, some of already available photographs of the candidates (it falls under parody, so it’s “fair use” under US law), and toss it all up on a cheap cloud host.
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JMTQp8lwXL 6y ago
It's not Harris' official site; it's a website critical of her.
- Simulacra 6y ago
  Which means it should definitely NOT be censored.

38 points by deathhand 6y ago

Currently unable to private message the url https://kamalaharris.info/ in either FB or Instagram.

treeman79 6y ago

“The past never had been altered. Oceania was at war with Eastasia. Oceania had always been at war with Eastasia.”

ccffpphh 6y ago

Can confirm, just tried it myself and it hasn't gone through at all. Been several minutes.

xvedejas 6y ago
On FB messenger, I'm immediately met with a message of "Your message couldn't be shared, because this link goes against our Community Standards"
- chrischen 6y ago
  They may as well have replaced "Community Standards" with "Social Harmony" (the rhetoric of China).

googthrowaway42 6y ago

Considering the amount of non-Americans that work at Facebook is this not foreign election interference?

zaroth 6y ago

Some might call this election interference. It’s almost impressive this site is even on their radar.

chrischen 6y ago

No problem, we can just a VPN to access the free social network of the east: TikTok.

insickness 6y ago

I'm reading joebiden.info is blocked as well.

adammichaelc 6y ago

I tried it on FB messenger and it worked

treeman79 6y ago
I got an instant unable to send

cooper12 6y ago

That site claims to be "self-funded" and by "an American citizen" (singular), yet it's very obvious this was made by a decently funded team. It's very well-designed, comes with a slogan, each point has a summary header, details, and a citation, juxtaposition with professional photographs of Harris laughing, and then a disclaimer at the bottom clearly vetted by lawyers. Oh, and there's even a link to a sister site for Biden, complete with a storefront with more catchy slogans on t-shirts. Highly suspicious to say the least. I wonder who's behind it.

kyleee 6y ago
Does that mean it's worthy of being censored?
- cincinnatus 6y ago
  It does if it is foreign election interference. We live in complicated times.
gabruoy 6y ago
While I don't remember his username, the person who set up joebiden.info site was an active user of thedonald.win (formerly reddit's /r/The_Donald), and promoted it there and answered questions back during the primarys. Surely since his site exploded in popularity he's gotten some help though.
Ancapistani 6y ago
HN is a site populated largely by people with the exact skills necessary to make something like this, solo, in a relatively short time frame. I see absolutely nothing that would lead me to believe it’s anything but one individual’s project that they happen to be passionate about. I first saw it a couple of days ago and realized that if that domain was available, others would be. They were - I ended up with a half dozen or so great domains relevant to this election and am in the process of putting together a series of sites targeted to specific aspects of the candidates’ publicly espoused beliefs and actions. The hardest part is writing content in a way that is reasonably objective and with proper sources. Actually building the sites will be fairly trivial - grab a template, some of already available photographs of the candidates (it falls under parody, so it’s “fair use” under US law), and toss it all up on a cheap cloud host.

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JMTQp8lwXL 6y ago

It's not Harris' official site; it's a website critical of her.

Simulacra 6y ago
Which means it should definitely NOT be censored.