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.
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.