(12-24-2023, 05:03 PM)WingerDinger Wrote: Yikes.. 

https://twitter.com/LauraLoomer/status/1...Uqgbg&s=19

"Who knew in America that the phone providers would now be policing the content of your text messages to fine you.
S.H.A.F.T. is an acronym that stands for Sex, Hate, Alcohol, Firearms, and Tobacco. It outlines the categories of text messages specifically regulated due to moral and legal issues and is monitored and enforced by the Cellular Telephone Industries Association (CTIA) and the mobile carriers.
Who gets to determine what is and isn’t “hateful”?
Will political text messages be censored now as well going into 2024?
This is what @comcast did to me in 2019/2020 when I ran for Congress. I warned people that it would happen to others when nobody did anything to stop this when it happened to me as a congressional candidate!
Nice TOS date change! Just in time for the GOP primary and 2024 presidential election!
Nothing to see here!"

I get why they're doing it. This is how and where human trafficking happens. It's where people are scammed out of life savings. It's how and where a lot of bad [BLEEP] happens so I get it. The problem is limiting them to what is considered to be true threats. We already see on social media how this can be abused. One way is they were/are blocking people for their POV on everything from politics to breast feeding in public to the LGBT+ folks who don't see it their way, yet actual terrorists and child predators and the like get to do whatever they want. 

I get it, but I don't like where it can lead if left unchecked. When it does go sideways I'll never have a cellphone again.

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