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Re:996, GitHub, and China's digital workers rights awakening by reverite on Wednesday April 10, 2019 @09:28PM (#19630331)
Apparently tweeting the 996.icu website from the official Twitter Android/iOS clients causes it to refuse to send at all. You don't even need to be in China to see the result, because it blacklists the link globally. It allows the link on web and 3rd party clients, though.[1]

[1] https://twitter.com/copiesofcopies/status/111403968059961344...

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Re:996, GitHub, and China's digital workers rights awakening by bjackman on Thursday April 11, 2019 @01:26AM (#19631397)
Have just tested. I get "Failed to send tweet" if sending from Android client, and I leave in the page preview when composing the tweet.

- It works fine from web interface, problem is specific to Android - The problem doesn't show up for "123.icu" so it seems specific to 996.icu

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Re:996, GitHub, and China's digital workers rights awakening by IloveHN84 on Thursday April 11, 2019 @01:54AM (#19631519)
What's your phone maker?
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Re:996, GitHub, and China's digital workers rights awakening by bjackman on Saturday April 13, 2019 @01:32AM (#19651269)
Nokia (recent, it's really a Chinese company). Also I'm in Vietnam.
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Re:996, GitHub, and China's digital workers rights awakening by wybiral on Wednesday April 10, 2019 @10:11PM (#19630552)
Why would Twitter censor something like that?

Edit: if this is a glitch from trying to combat bots Tweeting the URL, that just means you can trigger automatic censorship of any URL with a bot farm.

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Re:996, GitHub, and China's digital workers rights awakening by sitharus on Thursday April 11, 2019 @12:18AM (#19631124)
Just tested myself and the official client refuses to send. Third-party clients are unaffected, good thing I still use one really.
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Re:996, GitHub, and China's digital workers rights awakening by AFascistWorld on Thursday April 11, 2019 @02:14AM (#19631612)
Not to defend twitter, but could this be an anti-spam measure?
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Re:996, GitHub, and China's digital workers rights awakening by JimDabell on Thursday April 11, 2019 @03:30AM (#19631908)
This is very unlikely because it seems to be something that happens in the official client rather than server-side. Spammers are unlikely to use official clients and blocking them there doesn't make any sense.

Having said that, if they were intentionally trying to block this then using their anti-spam mechanisms would be an obvious way of doing so, so I think it's definitely a possibility that this is some accidental side-effect of something else rather than a simple intentional block.

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Re:996, GitHub, and China's digital workers rights awakening by keytarsolo on Thursday April 11, 2019 @03:54AM (#19631992)
An anti spam feature should not links typed by real humans on purpose. Lots of popular links are shared on twitter and don't get blocked via anti spam. This seems like something deliberate, even if the global part of the impact is a deployment error.
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