Oh wow, that’s totally not a gross invasion of privacy.
Welcome to SMS.
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.
This seems and sounds very bad but I would bet this is more of a result of filtering or anti spam protocols than active censoring. Could be several different companies or ISPs or datacenters it goes through since SMS is such an old and inefficient service. Best idea would be to switch to different messaging app that isn't whatsapps or use RCS
If true, it actually makes some sense. An older generation with poor eyesight seems likely to fall for legit-looking scam texts with links to copycat domains like "arnazon" and "UPS.gov.co".
This would be pretty illegal in the UK for T Mobile to do to my knowledge, I've never heard of any mobile phone provider censoring or modifying messages. That would be utterly abhorrent, akin to Royal Mail opening your letters and changing what they say before they deliver them.
If your provider is actually doing that, I'd take them to court, because that's super evil. Even if they're supposedly using the ability for "good", eventually it won't be.
Terms of service for Britain from companies like Meta are increasingly changing to their default US ones though. I’ve read that it’s because the EU protection is gone.
Never had that happen, but I use signal as I like my privacy. I'll try to have that happen, then ill be on the phone as one more irate customer bitching.
Wish I could get my friends to all use Signal as well. It's a solid comm app.
MANY years ago, back when it was Txt Secure I strongarmed everybody I knew into it, was easier then because it visually looked way better than the messenging apps of the time, now its a lot harder, plus signal being g assholes and dumping SMS, while I dont like it, running two apps is bullshit. Now for my non Signal contacts at least Google messenger has RCS so I've actually picked up a lot of encrypted people by chance, sadly of course...Google. I still have my concerns whether they have keys or not, but either way RCS is better than SMS.
Hey! I discovered this awhile ago. They filter all world domains, and there was another TLD they filter too, but I can't remember now. I tried sending to iPhone and Android users with the same results.
And in just blasted them on their FB page, not gonna let this one go! I suggest everybody pissed about that don't he same on e very channel we have available to us.
Consider possibly sending a letter of complaint to the Cali Atty Gen and your state's Atty Gen as well as Consumer Affairs and the BBB.
Not a bad idea! Being censored by a regulated telecom has to break some rule somewhere. On it!
I can verify that this happened to me on t-mobile about 2 weeks ago, was unable to send a link to my community to a friend. Another reason on a long list of reasons to hate t-mobile.
Never use your ISPs DNS.
That will not help here. SMS doesn't involve DNS.
Right. Just a reminder.
Does it not recognize .world?
I feel like this is common across any major mobile network.
I'm on AT&t and do a lot of research into weird and niche topics for work and send links back and forth and I've never had any of my SMS stripped
Possibly however the test they did in the youtube video said ATT and Verizon hadn't started doing this as of that time.
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