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.

  • Throwaway@lemm.ee
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    1 year ago

    Why on earth act like conservatives being concerned is bad? It detracts from the rest of the message.

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      1 year ago

      I’m not? All I can find are conservatives crying victim about it online, though. It’s not just right wing censorship.

      edit: To clarify - the only sourcing for proof are conservatives claiming it’s only them being targeted. One person said they were going to switch to something called Patriot Mobile as if the reason a mega communication corporation censoring them was due to their party affiliation when, in fact, it isn’t. Obviously censorship of someone on a major carrier due to party affiliation is trash but it’s wrongheaded to think it’s just one group being abused when it’s clearly a policy TMobile can apply in any way they deem ok.