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Facebook explicitly told them that Linux was remaining on their cybersecurity filter.

I suspect the author is summarizing the response in an inaccurate way. I suspect the response was that distrowatch is remaining filtered (because it linked to a tarball that AVs flag as malware).

If your domain links to content that AVs flag as malware, it gets blocked on FB. This is probably not shocking? Distrowatch is likely uniquely susceptible to this because they're constantly linking to novel, 3rd-party tarballs ("Latest Packages" column).

> If your domain links to content that AVs flag as malware, it gets blocked on FB. This is probably not shocking?

Getting banned for linking to a tarball that is falsely flagged as malware is shocking, in particular if there is no easy way to appeal.

There is a way to appeal, but bad actors also try to use it.

I hope that’s the case. It’s certainly a lot less chilling than intentional censorship.

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