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.
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.
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.