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T-Mobile Facing Lawsuit Over Text Message Censorship

Posted by Soulskill on from the stirring-the-pot dept.

Tootech writes with this quote from Wired: "A mobile-marketing company claimed Friday it would go out of business unless a federal judge orders T-Mobile to stop blocking its text-messaging service, the first case testing whether wireless providers can block text messages they don't like. EZ Texting claims T-Mobile blocked the company from sending text messages for all of its clients after learning that legalmarijuanadispensary.com, an EZ Texting client, was using its service to send texts about legal medical marijuana dispensaries in California. 'T-Mobile subjectively did not approve of one of the thousands of lawful businesses and non-profits served by EZ Texting,' according to New York federal lawsuit."

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  1. T-Mobile not part of gov't, so it's not censorship by noidentity · · Score: 0, Troll

    Unless T-Mobile is now run by the government, blocking text messages isn't censorship. The messages run over their private networks, so they are free to pass or block them.

  2. Re:Well they are private by Chocolate+Teapot · · Score: 1, Troll

    Besides, I never say anything that needs to be censored.

    Well ain't you a f***ing saint!

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  3. Re:Why would they do this? by pgmrdlm · · Score: 0, Troll
    So are you saying any form of spam filtering is censorship?

    Do you consider all spam filtering companies as censoring companies? Do you consider anti virus software as censorship software?

    All of the examples I have given will restrict what you see. By your definition, that is censorship. Correct or no?

    If you answer yes to all of these being censorship. Are you stating they should be illegal?

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  4. Who I origionally tried to reply to by pgmrdlm · · Score: 0, Troll
    So are you saying any form of spam filtering is censorship?

    Do you consider all spam filtering companies as censoring companies? Do you consider anti virus software as censorship software?

    All of the examples I have given will restrict what you see. By your definition, that is censorship. Correct or no?

    If you answer yes to all of these being censorship. Are you stating they should be illegal?

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  5. Re:Marijuana is not legal by BitZtream · · Score: 0, Troll

    Its illegal regardless of crossing state lines.

    Federal law supersedes state law, always.

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