T-Mobile actively blocks incoming "thedonald.win" texts from Verizon.

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[–]Tarrock 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (8 children)

Contact their corporate office. I can guarantee you someone lower leveled did this and once corporate hears about it, they'll do something since it puts them at risk.

[–]xv_xx 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (7 children)

It doesn't. They're a private company. Free speech is protected from the government, not from private companies.

[–]Tarrock 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun -  (5 children)

This isn't a fucking free speech issue. TMobile doesn't have section 230 protection either. It is literally illegal for telecomms to be blocking sites. There was a huge shitstorm when AT&T blocked 4chan a decade ago, even though they did it temporarily due to a DDOS attack.

[–]xv_xx 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (4 children)

It isn't illegal for them to block sites.

[–]Tarrock 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

It is :)

Source: I work in the industry.

[–]xv_xx 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

Well, I did look up whether it was illegal and I couldn't find anything. Can you point me to the right laws?

[–]Tarrock 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

I don't know the exact law, but it's related to older laws preventing Telecomm companies from blocking phone numbers without your consent, since it would start restricting information. There's a reason why the whole robocall thing took so long to even start being addressing that issue since laws had to be amended to even do something about it.

Btw, do you want your phone company to have the power to restrict your communication? Someone like me could decide you're an undesireable and restrict anyone from calling you. Good luck getting a job when no one can call you.

[–]xv_xx 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

It's a bit of a leap a telecomm blocking me specifically as opposed to preventing the dissemination of material that is controversial at best and seditious at worst. And there are a number of federal laws that do apply to blocking websites, so it is not impossible. But I would like to read the law you mention myself.

[–]insta 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Libertarianism is useless.