[External] Re: Google Abuse

Wed Aug 17 16:06:07 UTC 2022

Spam filtering is clearly not the accusation that was laid out.

On Wed, Aug 17, 2022 at 11:48 AM Hunter Fuller <hf0002+nanog at 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.
>
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> On Wed, Aug 17, 2022 at 10:46 AM Tom Beecher <beecher at 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 <telmnstr at 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
>
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