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Time to leave Tmobile.
Is this true?
BREAKING:
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 the mobile carriers. Who gets to determine what is and isn't "hateful"? Will political text messages be censored now as well going into 2024?
Hello all. These changes only apply to third-party messaging vendors that send commercial mass messaging campaigns for other businesses. The vendors will be fined if the content they are sending does not meet the standards in our code of conduct, which is in place to protect consumers from illegal or illicit content and aligns to federal and state laws.
MimiNW wrote:
gramps28 wrote:
It's ironic that this was posted twice within minutes of each other from different posters.
Has anyone else noticed the typo in the link above? "Pilicy"? T-Mobile wouldn't post that link with a mispelling. I don't trust it. And a policy change like that needs to be shared with all customers. If they don't, it's illegal to fine
If you click on the link, it's not a post by a Tmobile employee but a different thread by a different poster with poor grammar with a Tmobile employee response pinned.
If the source of this misinformation is Laura Loomer, you should seriously consider the quality of the information in the first place.
Laura Loomer is despicable excuse for a human being who engages in vile hate of people based on their skin color, national origin and faith practices.
We know that these tech giants spy on us and read our messages, which is a violation of the law. But to brazenly use it to make rule changes is bizarre to me. I hope this is not true; otherwise, sign me up for the class-action lawsuit coming to T-Mobile.
o'L wrote:
We know that these tech giants spy on us and read our messages, which is a violation of the law. But to brazenly use it to make rule changes is bizarre to me. I hope this is not true; otherwise, sign me up for the class-action lawsuit coming to T-Mobile.
There will be no class action. You seem to be under the impression that there is some guarantee of privacy while using PRIVATE infrastructure. There is not.
You are granted a right to use the infrastructure by the operator in return for money. That's it. End of discussion. The operator gives you NO RIGHTS and bears NO RESPONSIBILITIES for anything they do.
The T-Mobile network is T-Mobile's sandbox. They get to make the rules.
There has been some talk of "Patriot Mobile" here… Read their TOS. It will say the same thing…no matter what junior wants you to believe.
PS. The First Amendment doesn’t apply to contractual relationships between PRIVATE parties.
PPS. Read the service agreement that you SIGNED when signing up for T-Mobile services. I can guarantee that you signed away your right to sue T-Mobile for anything in any forum or jurisdiction...agreeting to "arbitration" instead. The arbitration process is completely controlled by T-Mobile so it's pretty much a foregone conclusion who would come out on top.
