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MSN Messenger Censorship

Posted: August 04, 2007 @ 10:13 PM EST | Filed Under: Microsoft, Software

I was in the #chatwebdev channel recently and noticed them talking about MSN Messenger censoring URLs on the server-side and disallowing people from sending those URLs. The list, in my opinion, is completely foolhardy on Microsoft’s part. The list includes URLs that contain:

Microsoft’s reasoning? It was apparently easier for them to censor their users rather than fix their buggy software. How nice of them…