Hello Andre, For what it's worth, I tried sending this message on my Facebook (I am in Canada) and nothing happened. So the blocking, if factual, is probably limited to a certain number of accounts.
>From personal experience, I don't recall hearing about this sort of thing >happening in the past. Facebook Chat anti-abuse is usually triggered by URLs, >not by regular messages, as far as I know. NK On 2013-06-22, at 4:54 PM, André Costa <andredmco...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hello guys > > I cannot say exactly what's going on in Brazil, but we have just revealed > what seems to be the tip of a surveillance strategy related to the military. > We have found that, when you send the message "Meu amigo general disse que a > Força Nacional tá mega bem equipada, pra qualquer emergência." on the chat, > this content is automatically reported as abusive and the account is > automatically suspended. > > For those who do not understand Portuguese, this sentence would translate as > "My General-of-the-army friend said that the National Security Forces are > very well equipped, for the case of any emergence". At least five friends > needed to reconfirm their account, whereas I have not been able to come back. > > I suspect that this system of aumotically banning probably works outside > Brazil as well, so you may try it yourselves, but take care, because it may > not let you get you accounts back. > > Could you try to put some light on this? Any idea of what it may be? > > Thank you very much for any help > Andre > -- > Too many emails? Unsubscribe, change to digest, or change password by > emailing moderator at compa...@stanford.edu or changing your settings at > https://mailman.stanford.edu/mailman/listinfo/liberationtech -- Too many emails? Unsubscribe, change to digest, or change password by emailing moderator at compa...@stanford.edu or changing your settings at https://mailman.stanford.edu/mailman/listinfo/liberationtech
