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.
Don’t get me wrong; I understand SMS is a very insecure method of communication.
That doesn’t justify cellular companies censoring the communications of their users. That’s just not justifiable; like I said before that’s a gross abuse of privacy and free speech.
I obviously am a tech guy (I’m on Lemmy, lol) but not everyone is, and it’s wrong to act like people that don’t understand the technical workings of their communication apps don’t deserve privacy and security and autonomy. Should they be educated about these things? Oh hell yeah! But to say we shouldn’t protect people because of their ignorance…that’s just not helpful to your fellow man. Nor can I think of any moral justification.
Were I a tmobile subscriber, I’d look to start a class action suit. I’m not, however. Hint hint tmobile subscribers. This sounds like a pretty clear case.