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Re:Facebook is now claiming official CDC.gov links are “Fals... by ALittleLight on Thursday July 29, 2021 @08:49PM (#28003271)
The example regex would fail on that url. More generally I was trying to suggest with an example that filtering credible information with a regex is error prone.
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Re:Facebook is now claiming official CDC.gov links are “Fals... by l33t2328 on Friday July 30, 2021 @12:05PM (#28009446)
Yes, and the example was naive. It’s trivial to make regex identify TLDs.
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Re:Facebook is now claiming official CDC.gov links are “Fals... by ALittleLight on Friday July 30, 2021 @12:45PM (#28009828)
Yeah, but that doesn't work either. There are gov sites that have incorrect information, out of date information, partisan ideas and rhetoric, or there may exist, now or in the future, a .gov website where people could upload and share content.
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