Posted on 12/26/2023 11:03:50 PM PST by ransomnote
Excerpt from linked Article by Egbe Ogu
"In a surprising move, T-Mobile, one of the leading phone service providers in the United States, has recently updated its Terms of Service (TOS) to include fines for content that they deem objectionable. This development has sparked concerns among users and raised questions about the extent of control that phone companies now have over the content we consume. Beginning on January 1, 2024, T-Mobile will start imposing fines on users who commit perceived violations on their bandwidth. This article aims to explore the implications of this policy change and its potential impact on users’ freedom of expression."
In the General/Chat forum, on a thread titled Q ~ Trust Trump's Plan ~ 12/24/2023 Vol.483, Q Day 2248, STARLIT wrote: Laura Loomer
@LauraLoomer
BREAKING:
@TMobile
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?
This is what
@comcast
did to me in 2019/2020 when I ran for Congress. I warned people that it would happen to others when nobody did anything to stop this when it happened to me as a congressional candidate!Nice TOS date change! Just in time for the GOP primary and 2024 presidential election!
Nothing to see here!
The problem with signal is both parties have to have it
My Verizon phon did a mandatory major update a couple weeks ago.
When I “type” on it, I do that glide thing across the letters. It’s never been perfect, and autocorrect has resulted in some weird and sometimes funny stuff. But you could see why it happened; the similarity made sense.
Since this update, sometimes my screen will show a string of not-nice, often racist, words. They’re NOT EVEN CLOSE to my input. And the words will be three in a row. It’s like the keyboard is possessed, or TPTB are setting me up to be “caught”. I know it sounds flaky, but this never has happened before over so many years. They’re not words I would use, but there they are, clear as day. And why three in a row?
Now I try to remember to proofread before posting.
Anybody else notice this?
so you are saying I would be getting even more spam than now?
Cuz I get more than i want.
Yep, w/o cell company text message “policing” probably a lot more. I seem to get a lot more phone call SPAM than text message SPAM. (Harder to police phone calls w/o “thought police”). Text messages can be screened before going out to customers.
Either the customers get SHAFTed or give Tmobile the shaft. Most will roll over and take it.
I have a T-Mobile mifi and always use a VPN.
My account is a direct draft, 5% or not, I guess change it to a CC for billing.
vpn doesnt help with text messages. But your point is well taken with the VPN. They don’t have any business tracking your web searches.
Thanks for posting, ‘note.
Oooh...you reminded me...I also Swype instead of tapping keys to type...
About ten years ago,I was enjoying dinner along the water with my two year old Pyrenees. Like a dummy,I hung her leash on a dock cleat and yep, you guessed it, she got tangled in her leash and fell into the water, which was about 4 feet below the dock. I dropped my wallet, shirt and shoes and jumped in after her. We swam around to the end of the dock and the floating jet ski docks to climb out. A couple guys got my dog out and one guy, despite me saying “I’ve got this”, grabbed my arm and forcefully yanked me, smacking my rib cage on the floating dock.
I Swypee a text to my (at the time) gf, who was a flight attendant out of town, a text, without wearing my reading glasses, or proof reading; “I think I broke my ribs”.
Except it didn’t quite read that way - it read
“I think I broke Mr cheesy”
It wasn’t realized, until the next morning, when she replied; “WHAT!? Who, or what is Mr cheesy?!”
#theyneverletyouforgetit
(Now I try to remember to proofread before posting.)
What? And wreck my excellent record of posting autocorrect bloopers all of the time?
C’mon man!!!
😆😂🤣😜
Use a closed system for messaging such as Apple Messages, etc. SMS and MMS messages are pretty poor in this day and age.
Post 7 - Lucky you.
Another good reason not to use debit cards.
I retired from T-Mobile, after originally being a Sprint employee.
The left-wing agenda at T-Mobile was ridiculous. We constantly had to watch videos about respecting others life choices. We also had to click a button that said we agree with their position in order to get credit for the mandatory classes.
I was offered an early retirement package a year and a half ago that was simply to good to ignore.
It’s been nice to be free of the corporate culture that’s run largely by activist democrats.
I still work, but in a mundane job that I love.
.
LOL!
“Last summer T-Mobile decided to up-charge their customers 5% if they didn’t give T-Mobile direct bank account debits. At the time, like most, I figured it was a way to avoid losing the 3% associated with credit card charges. Silly me - seems that they wanted direct access to my bank account so that they could pull-out my fines (for this new policy) and then make me fight them to get my money back.”
I have T Mobile Home Internet (aside from satellite my only option). I went through this, too. I also decided $5 a month was not worth giving them direct access to my checking account.
Thank you Drago for pointing this out, it’s something not everyone knows. It’s quite disappointing that Laura Loomer, or whoever composed this original ‘breaking’ news didn’t do their homework.
To those who aren’t aware, this falls in line with the FCC’s Stir/Shaken ruling. Stir/Shaken has been in the works for 2 years and is supposedly finally going into affect sometime in January (deadline has been postponed a few times). The lip service to the public is it’s supposed to cut down on spam calls, (that’s doubtful). However, instead of going after the spamming businesses themselves, what the government is doing is going after the voice service provider, be it cell service or internet (VoIP/SIP), for allowing those spam calls. The bigger cell providers jumped on compliance right away, updated their TOS probably a year ago, and who reads the TOS anyway? It appears that T-Mobile is among some of the last providers to make it public that they’ve complied before the impending deadline.
My main wireless is Verizon.
T-Mobile had a special on mifi plans and I signed up.
One location I use as a makeshift garage has nothing in terms of data or power.
It means you’re paying to be spied on.
bttt
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