Re: [liberationtech] Brazilian Activists automatically being banned from Facebook

2013-06-22 Thread Nadim Kobeissi
On 2013-06-22, at 7:58 PM, André Costa wrote: > Hello guys > > Just to let you all know, we have found it possibly was a well-organized > deceit. Apparently someone has spammed many messages with words related to > the military, and then started to spread a rumor that there was a > surveill

Re: [liberationtech] Brazilian Activists automatically being banned from Facebook

2013-06-22 Thread André Costa
Hello guys Just to let you all know, we have found it possibly was a well-organized deceit. Apparently someone has spammed many messages with words related to the military, and then started to spread a rumor that there was a surveillance scheme going on. Since the combination of those words had al

Re: [liberationtech] Brazilian Activists automatically being banned from Facebook

2013-06-22 Thread Nadim Kobeissi
Hello Andre, For what it's worth, I tried sending this message on my Facebook (I am in Canada) and nothing happened. So the blocking, if factual, is probably limited to a certain number of accounts. >From personal experience, I don't recall hearing about this sort of thing >happening in the pas

[liberationtech] Brazilian Activists automatically being banned from Facebook

2013-06-22 Thread André Costa
Hello guys I cannot say exactly what's going on in Brazil, but we have just revealed what seems to be the tip of a surveillance strategy related to the military. We have found that, when you send the message "Meu amigo general disse que a Força Nacional tá mega bem equipada, pra qualquer emergênci