Facebook says it will stop people viewing or sharing news in AustraliaI see this news widely covered on the net, but what exactly does it mean? I don't use Facebook. Are they censoring links? Is there a stupid, easy way around it?
I am curious because a couple of months ago I came up with a system to encode link-shortener output (base64) as ordinary words: https://github.com/Stegacite/stegacite A simple illustration of how this could be used is here: https://jsfiddle.net/Lke6p3dq/ Is this a meaningful situation where this could undermine the system of blocking URL text? And whose system would it undermine - Australia's, or Facebook's?
If so, how would I get word to users that hey, they don't have to use inherently evil URL links, which expose them to incessant regulation because somehow they are a Thing Different Than Talking. Can we undo that idiot Berners-Lee's idea, end the World Wide Web of Censorship, but use WORDS to look up information fast?
spc50 wrote
Time for people to stop using Facebook.
I don't understand why normies live on Facebook.
All I hear is their family + friends are on there.
I think they are mostly being voyeuristic and spying on what other people open post.
Beyond that it's become thing for businesses to have no website and point people to their Facebook. I yell at businesses all the time about that. Can't even view their stuff often if not logged into FB.
Facebook is smart enough to look at end side after your convert the link for destination and gather that. You could time them out there or create more complex situation before allowing real person to do activity to click on something to then be forwarded.
Interesting project. Would like to see more approachable full example... Keep up the work.