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Kickass.to Links Blocked by Twitter

posted by mattie_p on Friday February 21 2014, @02:18PM   Printer-friendly

l3g0la5 writes:

"Techie News reports:

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."

 
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  • (Score: 2, Funny) by bucc5062 on Friday February 21 2014, @05:16PM

    by bucc5062 (699) on Friday February 21 2014, @05:16PM (#4422)
    would this help [kickass.to] or maybe this will help [wikipedia.org] or if we just don't want to type [lmgtfy.com]. After reading posts from another article I started using DDG, but it was not as good about finding what I wanted for KA.t so it was back to google. You do remember google (said with a smile)
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  • (Score: 3, Insightful) by hubie on Friday February 21 2014, @06:51PM

    by hubie (1068) Subscriber Badge on Friday February 21 2014, @06:51PM (#4455) Journal

    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 :) ).