Journal drinkypoo's Journal: Facebook doesn't want you to know why Jeanne Mansfield was Maced 11
I posted the Boston Review story Why I Was Maced at the Wall Street Protests by Jeanne Mansfield to my Facebook wall, and it faithfully appeared ("via Links") on my wall. When my friends saw the update, however, they did not get the link. So I posted it again, and the same thing happened. And I posted the URL in a comment, and the comment disappeared. So then I posted the URL with spaces in it in another comment, and the comment did not disappear. Facebook is deliberately filtering comments containing the URL for the story. This is hardly conclusive evidence, of course. They could just be massively incompetent. Sorry, not buying it any more, not since they started releasing their code.
Woah (Score:2)
Relax. Facebook deletes all full URLs to discourage spam and abuse. Try removing 'http://'
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Relax. Facebook deletes all full URLs to discourage spam and abuse.
Um, no it doesn't.
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It does for me, every day. Even Youtube links. All I do to make them go through is strip the http:/// [http]
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Look, I posted the link, it showed up as via links, I reload my wall, it still shows up, then later I get comment notifications with people saying "where is the link". They removed the link, plain and simple. The update was "via Links" but the link went missing.
Further, the normal behavior when you post a URL is to turn it into a tracked link and then put a preview below the link. This actually happened when I posted the URL as a comment UNDER the Link, and then it was removed on posting.
The behavior you de
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If you posted it, then I retract my position. I've only seen that in comments, not posts.
As to have been owned, I would find that doubtful, as I'm on Linux and very careful.
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The alternatives are cache poisoning, running some script that alters its behavior, or MITM :p
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Hmm...I just did a little googling and found several references to similar problems, but nothing official. Look:
https://www.facebook.com/topic.php?uid=2309869772&topic=12764 [facebook.com]
http://www.thefacebookforum.net/t12204-urls-in-comments-disappear [thefacebookforum.net]
http://www.allfacebook.com/facebook-comment-links-2010-09 [allfacebook.com]
Of course (Score:2)
If you were Facebook, would you want the world to know what's happening on Wall Street?
The corporate Internet is now a self-healing bubble protecting wealth.
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Frankly, the article is the news I want out there, and I'm only posting it here (and to my private blog, too) with the sensational headline to get more eyeballs on it, because clearly Facebook does not want it seen. The fact that FB is trying to bury it is really just an aside. They want me to not show it to the small handful of people who haven't blocked my status updates, or had them blocked for them by facebook? Whatever. Lots more people than that read my blog. Even more read Slashdot.
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Try it without the http and let us know what happens.
There's a video of the actual incident on youtube that shows it in slow motion, the way he just walks up out of nowhere, unloads on them, and walks away. Appalling.
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Now that Huffington Post was pretty much forced to run an article about this, I posted a comment with the Boston Review link in it (noting that I'd been clued to it by a fellow Slashdotter) and got at least one vote of thanks, so that's some further spreading of it.