T-Mobile Quietly Updates Its Terms to Fine Commercial Users for “Hate Speech”

If you’re tired of censorship and dystopian threats against civil liberties, subscribe to Reclaim The Net. Mobile communications giant T-Mobile has on the low updated its terms of service to include fines if content runs afoul of its perceived violations of “hate speech and profanities.” For now at least – this applies to marketing texts (application to person, A2P – commercial and enterprise service), rather than individual consumers. For example, businesses and campaigns emailing you will be subjected to this type of scrutiny – not messages you send to friends and family. The changes, however, do come just as the campaign for next year’s election is heating up in the US. And people previously “burned” by this heat, and their opposition stance to the current US administration, are closely looking at development of this kind. The story right now is that starting January 1, T-Mobile has new rules for such users it has decided violate its rules, and therefore, bandwidth. The core of this policy is something – somewhat unfortunately, too – dubbed, SHAFT – Sex, Hate, Alcohol, Firearms, and Tobacco. And, the point seems to be to police messages sent via T-Mobile that are seen as being in violation of either legal – or “moral” issues, as the company sees fit. Now, there was originally confusion about what T-Mobile might quietly be up to. (As of right now, and for the time being) it is A2P traffic that might violate the top tier, “severity-0/Sev” = of the company’s violations…T-Mobile Quietly Updates Its Terms to Fine Commercial Users for “Hate Speech”