{"id":606,"date":"2007-08-07T03:07:39","date_gmt":"2007-08-07T08:07:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/archives\/2007\/08\/07\/msn-censors-your-messages"},"modified":"2007-08-07T03:07:43","modified_gmt":"2007-08-07T08:07:43","slug":"msn-censors-your-messages","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/archives\/2007\/08\/07\/msn-censors-your-messages","title":{"rendered":"MSN censors your messages"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Its probably my fault for using MSN (Microsoft Messenger), but it seems to be most prominent among a lot of users I know. Thank goodness <strike>gaim<\/strike>Pidgin supports the protocol just fine.<\/p>\n<p>My recent usage of Facebook has wanted me to drop people profile information, via MSN. I somehow get a stupid message: &#8220;<font color=\"#ff0000\"><b><font size=\"3\">Message could not be sent because a connection error occurred:<\/font><\/b><\/font>&#8220;. If you&#8217;re in a chat, you get disconnected from the chat, so you need to be re-invited.<\/p>\n<p>It seems that in Microsoft&#8217;s infinite wisdom, they&#8217;re doing server side filtering, and killing your messages as they fit if they match an expression. Blocking popular items like:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>.info &#8211; yes, this includes all domains that have .info in them, which is really, <i>silly<\/i><\/li>\n<li>profile.php? &#8211; good bye to sending Facebook profiles via MSN<\/li>\n<li>download.php?<\/li>\n<li>gallery.php<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>A more comprehensive list is being kept at the Adium (pidgin for OS X) wiki, at <a href=\"http:\/\/trac.adiumx.com\/wiki\/MSNCensorship\">MSNCensorship<\/a>. They also <a href=\"http:\/\/www.adiumx.com\/blog\/2007\/08\/microsoft-censors-your-messages.php\">blogged<\/a> it. I&#8217;m discouraging all my friends I talk with regularly from using MSN and moving to more sensible services.<\/p>\n<p>Technorati Tags: <a class=\"performancingtags\" href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/msn\" rel=\"tag\">msn<\/a>, <a class=\"performancingtags\" href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/censosrship\" rel=\"tag\">censosrship<\/a>, <a class=\"performancingtags\" href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/microsoft\" rel=\"tag\">microsoft<\/a>, <a class=\"performancingtags\" href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/.info\" rel=\"tag\">.info<\/a>, <a class=\"performancingtags\" href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/profile.php\" rel=\"tag\">profile.php<\/a>, <a class=\"performancingtags\" href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/facebook\" rel=\"tag\">facebook<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"sharedaddy sd-sharing-enabled\"><div class=\"robots-nocontent sd-block sd-social sd-social-icon-text sd-sharing\"><h3 class=\"sd-title\">Share this:<\/h3><div class=\"sd-content\"><ul><li class=\"share-email\"><a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" data-shared=\"\" class=\"share-email sd-button share-icon\" href=\"mailto:?subject=%5BShared%20Post%5D%20MSN%20censors%20your%20messages&body=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.bytebot.net%2Fblog%2Farchives%2F2007%2F08%2F07%2Fmsn-censors-your-messages&share=email\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Click to email a link to a friend\" data-email-share-error-title=\"Do you have email set up?\" data-email-share-error-text=\"If you&#039;re having problems sharing via email, you might not have email set up for your browser. 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