Just tried to send a friend a story about Parkinson’s from lemmy.world and every single time TMobile strips the link from my SMS. They let tumblr.com though.

I just looked up if they’re actively censoring other sites and, yes. They are. They claim they’re only doing this to obscure domains (.xyz and so on) but I just watched a YouTuber demonstrate .com censorship too. So it seems it’s less arbitrary than they claim.

https://community.t-mobile.com/accounts-services-4/why-is-t-mobile-censoring-our-sms-40519

https://www.reddit.com/r/tmobile/comments/rskfmx/video_evidence_of_tmobiles_sms_blocking_the_more/

The conservatives are crying about it like it’s just them getting censored but it seems it’s beyond party lines if I can’t share an article about Parkinson’s research.

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      I’m on AT&t and do a lot of research into weird and niche topics for work and send links back and forth and I’ve never had any of my SMS stripped

    • TacoButtPlug@sh.itjust.worksOP
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      Possibly however the test they did in the youtube video said ATT and Verizon hadn’t started doing this as of that time.