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l3g0la5 writes:
Twitter isn't allowing users to post a link to Kickass.to stating that the URL in the tweet 'appears to link to a page that has spammy or unsafe content.' I tried clicking on one of the URLs sent to me by one of our publishers who wanted to share with us a draft copy of the soon to be published book and as soon as I clicked on it I was greeted with a rather unfamiliar message on Twitter. 'The site you were trying to visit may be unsafe! This link has been flagged as potentially harmful.' This led me to try out a little test of linking a random Kickass.to link and Twitter blocked the request with a message: 'Oops! A URL in your Tweet appears to link to a page that has spammy or unsafe content.'"
Fluffeh adds: "Questions to Twitter about the reason for this unusual blockade remain unanswered. On its website Twitter claims to use Google's safe browsing diagnostic tool, but the Kickass.to domain is not blocked here. Perhaps even stranger, KickassTorrent's old domain Kat.ph gets the same blocking treatment."
(Score: 2, Interesting) by cubancigar11 on Friday February 21 2014, @03:26PM
what is that "copy of the soon to be published book" :)
(Score: 0, Offtopic) by cubancigar11 on Friday February 21 2014, @04:14PM
Okay, how is that offtopic?
I am seeing some overzealous modders here. What is going on?
(Score: 1) by RedGreen on Friday February 21 2014, @04:24PM
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Okay, how is that offtopic?
I am seeing some overzealous modders here. What is going on?"
Probably the use them or lose them, rather quickly I might add, mod points system at play. I know I have had them a couple of times only to end up wasting some of them just for the sake of using before they expire. BTW anyone know where the quote parent button is or was it ever here?
"I modded down, down, down, and the flames went higher." -- Sven Olsen
(Score: 5, Insightful) by snick on Friday February 21 2014, @04:31PM
Given the number of active users, mod points are being given out like candy. Given the fairly low number of posts, folks are dumping mod posts on random comments in whatever story they haven't commented on.
(Score: 2, Insightful) by hubie on Friday February 21 2014, @04:28PM
I'm still wondering what Kickass.to is anyway. I gather it is a torrent site from the comments. Is there something unique about them, such as are they the only torrent site being blocked by Twitter? A little more background in the summary would have helped me.
(Score: 2, Funny) by bucc5062 on Friday February 21 2014, @05:16PM
The more things change, the more they look the same
(Score: 3, Insightful) by hubie on Friday February 21 2014, @06:51PM
I do welcome your snarkyness with good humor, and of course I could start tracking this stuff down myself, but my comment was more feedback for writing better article summaries. I still don't know whether there is anything special about this site causing it to be singled out by Twitter, or whether it is because of the kind of site it is (none of which are answered by the links you provided :) ).
(Score: 2, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Friday February 21 2014, @10:46PM
It has pretty much all of the content of the pirate bay. And many other torrent sites.
All in one place. With an active userbase that removes garbage torrents.
And comments that are more than 'thanks for uploading' repeated 1000 times.
It's become pretty much the top and best torrent site out there.
Public anyway. No login required. Even to comment.
And full use of magnet links. You never have to actually even download a
The latest stuff you could want. On a site that doesnt suck. On top of all that. it's free.