Sure, that's why I said that in my third paragraph. But once we know that they do, in fact, filter messages, we can understand why it might *seem* like they filter based on political content. For example, if a left-leaning news outlet uses bit.ly URLs, and a right-leaning one uses goo.gl URLs, and T-Mo filters all goo.gl URLs, some might conclude that "T-Mobile filters links to right-leaning news outlets."
-- Hunter Fuller (they) Router Jockey VBH M-1C +1 256 824 5331 Office of Information Technology The University of Alabama in Huntsville Network Engineering On Wed, Aug 17, 2022 at 11:06 AM Tom Beecher <beec...@beecher.cc> wrote: > > Spam filtering is clearly not the accusation that was laid out. > > On Wed, Aug 17, 2022 at 11:48 AM Hunter Fuller <hf0002+na...@uah.edu> wrote: >> >> I wouldn't call it a serious claim. By their own admission T-Mobile >> filters messages based on content. >> >> https://community.t-mobile.com/accounts-services-4/can-t-send-receive-texts-that-contain-goo-gl-7776 >> >> Now, there is no indication I'm aware of, that it is political in >> nature. But they do, factually, throw away messages based on their >> content. >> >> -- >> Hunter Fuller (they) >> Router Jockey >> VBH M-1C >> +1 256 824 5331 >> >> Office of Information Technology >> The University of Alabama in Huntsville >> Network Engineering >> >> On Wed, Aug 17, 2022 at 10:46 AM Tom Beecher <beec...@beecher.cc> wrote: >> > >> > It's a pretty serious claim to say that cell providers were selectively >> > not delivering messages based on content. >> > >> > Unless you have some more concrete evidence beyond "I sent a few texts" , >> > this list is no place for such things, nor the insinuation of political >> > agendas. >> > >> > On Wed, Aug 17, 2022 at 10:54 AM Ethan O'Toole <telmn...@757.org> wrote: >> >> >> >> > They may tell you they are not but there is no doubt in my mind they >> >> > are and >> >> > if they got caught their response would be “Oopsie, my bad”. >> >> > -richey >> >> >> >> During Covid hysteria cellular carriers were definitly scrubbing text >> >> messages that contained things against whatever the agenda was. >> >> >> >> There was no errors from the cellular carriers that the message didn't go >> >> through, it just never arrived to the destination. Tested it first hand, >> >> T-Mobile to Verizon, T-Mobile to AT&T and vice versa. Payload was links to >> >> a few websites that weren't popular with the left, like that Doctor Robert >> >> Malone guy. These were not using URL shorteners that are sometimes >> >> considered spam. >> >> >> >> >> >> - Ethan
