{"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":"https:\/\/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","protected":false},"excerpt":{"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 gaimPidgin supports the protocol just fine. My recent usage of Facebook has wanted me to drop people profile information, via MSN. I somehow get a stupid message: &#8220;Message could not [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-606","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4vJD-9M","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/606","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=606"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/606\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=606"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=606"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=606"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}