Securing the Right to Online Free Speech
This morning I had an email warning from from facebook due to an autopost failure from a WordPress blog:
Array ( [0] => Array ( [date] => 2016-01-16 12:18:48 [act] => Error [msg] => -=ERROR=- Array ( [Warning] => [Error] => Your message couldn’t be sent because it includes content that other people on Facebook have reported as abusive. ) [extInfo] => | PostID: xxxx – Iran: “American sailors started crying after arrest” |im [type] => E [nt] => Facebook …
This has been driving me nuts, Avast, an Anti-Virus product, I have in the past recommened have been flagging JihadWatch.org as having malware, with warnings such as “Infection Blocked”, “Avast WebShield has blocked a harmful web page or file” and “A Threat has been detected”, of course this is not true,
I first got notification of the issue last week, it happens, I’ve seen it a couple of times before, infact AVG another anti-virus company followed Avast and also …
These were a surprise for me this morning, I have a dozen emails from some very worried visitors to Jihadwatch.org.
These warnings are not for a real virus, it is what is known as a “false positive” (they got it wrong), ironically it is the counter DDoS protection that the anti-virus software is flagging as malicious, but there is nothing malicious about it, the Javascript is totally benign, only checking if you are a real person, and not some bot.…