I sent this as a bug report to Facebook. My work place filter also did not like the site, but still let me in.
Hi, I tried to post the link to a local folk festival here in NSW, and was prevented form doing so because the sight was said to be: reported as abusive by Facebook users.
it is: http://gulgongfolkfestival.150m.com/
I think that this is unfair and unjust. 🙁
This is the reply from Facebook:
Hi Brian,
Thanks for your email. Unfortunately, Facebook blocks certain URL domains from which spam often originates. While the page you trued to post is clearly not malicious, the recent prevalence of phishing and malware links originating from that domain has prompted Facebook to block this web domain for the time being. Please note that it may be unblocked in the near future if spam begins to subside. We apologize for any inconvenience.
Thanks for contacting Facebook,
Clint
User Operations
Facebook
I wrote this to Anthony Albanese, my local member of parliament.
Hi,
I am just writing to you about the topic of internet filtering. I am not actually against protecting people from illegal material. I think that this is a good idea. But I am concerned about the potential impact on innocent bystanders. Below is a case in point.
I was sent a link to a folk festival site in western NSW. At work my work filter blocked the site as containing illegal material. When I tried to post the link to my friends on Facebook I got a similar response. This is clearly incorrect. I am concerned about the reputation of a family friendly folk festival being slandered by internet filters and their loss of revenue as people have trouble accessing their site.
I sincerely hope that any filter you put up would not suffer from these problems and that if it does there is some means of restitution and compensation for the people so slandered or financially damaged within the system you establish.
Brian Yap (葉文意)
yewenyi.net
Hello there,
Many moons ago I had the wonderful opportunity of meeting up with and being entertained by Folk Music People at Hill End.
It really was one of the great memories of camping as they played, danced and enjoyed themselves. They were an absolute joy to be around.
Over the years I’ve told the ‘Folk Music’ story many times and now that I’ve discovered Gulgong’s Festival I’ll be bringing the wife & dog along for several days of camping, singing & socialising.
Cheers & here’s to a successful festival – Wayne D
The reason you have trouble with the gulgongfolkfestival.150m.com and others like it is – it is jammed with viruses. I’m the administrator of the new gulgongfolkfestival.com site and have had to have had dealings with this site and needed my computer fixed immediately after $120 !!! So if your computer is telling you it doesn’t like it … LISTEN or PAY to have it fixed.
Amanda
I have had my own site blocked by some software from a US filtering company and it had no such viruses and I was able to get it unblocked. No one told me my site was blocked, I only found out by chance. The message says nothing about viruses. Is say it was an abusive site, and that was not true. If it said it was an infected site that would be something completely different.