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Does this apply to private chats? Because I'll send these in a joking way to my girlfriend and some of my other friends. I know that Facebook messenger parses chats and won't allow porn site links and torrent magnet links to go through.

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Woah wait, they're blocking magnet links too?? That's horrible. It's already disgusting that they block porn links. Why are they censoring private speech between friends?

I haven't torrented in a while but I shared a non-piracy one for downloading creative commons game assets with someone about 5 years ago and it just wouldn't go through. I forget the automated message Messenger would give me but it was basically "We think this is illegal file sharing".

Removing porn links by default probably removes a considerable amount of spam and to keep creeps from sending your 12-year-old or your grandma graphic porn links.

It's interesting how we still refer to them as "private messages" or "private chats" when we know full well everything is being analyzed, as evidenced by your post.

They even parse/censor private/encrypted chat locally on the device, they cannot mind their own business.

I guess this applies to reported content, and maybe for content for wider audience (like public post / group / ...)?

I.e. if you send eggplant to your GF via chat, and she does not report you, it's fine. But if she receives private eggplant sex message from some rando and she report him, that should count as violation.

I'm totally fine with that system, where they can choose to report. But I'm also a guy who's never had to deal with sexual harassment, so maybe it can be already on for non-friends at the least?

Wait really ? Does it just try to parse the domain if it looks like a URL? Or is it easily obfuscated like additional letter or symbol infront example //{website}} will still be cencored ? What about breaking up the URL badwebsite.com vs bad/website.com

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