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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      In theory, yes? But it seems they’re applying the policy more arbitrarily than they claim. At least that’s what was demonstrated by the youtuber.

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        Not more arbitrarily then they claim. They didn’t say what criteria they are using for obscurity. You are confusing obscure domain with obscure TLD.

        The youtubers example is a self proclaimed “blockchain-based media platform” and is definitely an obscure domain.

        All that said, they shouldn’t be blocking obscure domains in the first place.

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      Google doesn’t have a handle one their spam controls either. They’ve been backsliding for a long time.

      Source: been fighting SEO search spam for 2 years. Tired of seeing spam from sex trafficking. DO SOMETHING GODDAMMIT.