The text you wanted to publish was blocked by the spam filter. This is probably caused by a link to a forbidden external site. The following text is what triggered our spam filter: bitcointalk.org
That wasted me three hours of effort. Through multiple cycles of previewing and editing, the censorship robot didn’t even bother to tell me I was linking to a
filthy, dirty, tainted site—perhaps even
a “NSFW” site, in its own ad hoc fuzzy definition of that vague, arbitrary, capricious, totally subjective term? It slammed the door in my face only when I was ready to publish. But I don’t want to name and shame in this post.
I’d prefer to deal with the problem constructively.
This forum
does have some of the types of links that link-spammers have probably spam-spam-spammed in other places. Moreover, I have no way to know whose fault it is; many site admins rely more or less on centralized spamfilter tools from other parties. I’m reluctant to yell too much about this—and at whom should I yell, anyway? And anyway, there’s
enough cretinous scum to stomp on here without getting into fights elsewhere.
This forum has a wealth of intelligent discussion, on topics ranging from technology to politics and society. This forum even has in its archives some
historically significant primary-source information, which should be of interest to scholars and librarians. Blunt blocking of all links to
bitcointalk.org is a travesty. Furthermore, censorship of URLs sunders the fabric of the Web;
at best, it fragments the Web, and it
ghettoizes immoral sites like the Bitcoin Forum.
Thereupon,
as the Greatest forum member since Satoshi, and maybe even Satoshi’s alt, I ask the community:
- How big is this problem?
- What are some constructive strategies to handle it?
- As pertains to major sites or otherwise large-scale blocking, does @theymos have any organized means to make polite contact with the responsible parties, and advocate to get rid of the block?
Thank you for your attention to this matter!
