because they lamely hate the pirate bay:
After The Pirate Bay introduced a feature in March 2009 to easily share links to torrents on the popularsocial networking site Facebook, Wired found in May that Facebook had started blocking the links. On further inspection, they discovered that all messages containing links to The Pirate Bay in both public and in private messages, regardless of content, were being blocked. Electronic Frontier Foundation lawyers commented that Facebook might be working against the US Electronic Communications Privacy Act by intercepting user messages, but Facebook chief privacy officer Chris Kelly said that they have the right to use blocks on links where there is a "demonstrated disregard for intellectual property rights," following users' agreement on their terms of service. Links to other similar sites have not been blocked.[164][165][166]
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