Is Your Mobile Carrier Policing Your Content Choices

in #news4 months ago

T-mobile has quietly updated their TOS to include fines for content they don’t agree with.

Beginning on January 1, 2024, they will be fining users who commit perceived violations on their bandwidth.

Who knew in America that the phone providers would now be policing the content of your text messages to fine you.

S.H.A.F.T. is an acronym that stands for Sex, Hate, Alcohol, Firearms, and Tobacco. It outlines the categories of text messages specifically regulated due to moral and legal issues and is monitored and enforced by the Cellular Telephone Industries Association (CTIA) and mobile carriers.

Who gets to determine what is and isn’t “hateful”?

Will political text messages be censored now as well going into 2024?

This is what Comcast did to some well-known political figures during the 2019/2020 election cycle.

Nice TOS date change! Just in time for the GOP primary and 2024 presidential election cycle.

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Wow, that's insane.
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Ha! They gotta re-coop all those fines they received for how they have handled their users' data!