THIS IS NUTS:
T-Mobile changed their TOS to institute FINES for customers sending "non-compliant traffic". This includes S.H.A.F.T (Sex, Hate, Alcohol, Firearms, and Tobacco) related content. 🤦♂️
Here is the link that is in the image “T-mobile Code of Conduct” I’m not going to get in a fight with anyone over this but I think they way everyone is interpreting this is probably wrong.
https://www.t-mobile.com/support/public-files/attachments/T-Mobile%20Code%20of%20Conduct.pdf
Everything in the document reads as if it applies only to “non-consumer” messaging campaigns. Skimming it sounds like it applies to services from marketers or other or automated interactive campaigns like when people are instructed to text “music” to 242567. And people have to send “STOP” to get them off out of the chain. It appears to be a code of conduct for those kinds of interactions where T mobile would fine entities if they do not follow those guidelines designed to give their customers a expected pleasant interaction and avoid consumers labeling that activity as spam. It does not appear to be directed at individuals talking to each other over SMS or the internet. But that’s just my read.
Man even tier 2 is nuts. Imagine you as a legal cannabis or hemp business now not able to use your phone cause of fines lmao. I'll be on the radio waves if this becomes a real thing. Shit I'll use smoke signals if I have too.
Fake maybe too strong I didn’t see any of the fees claimed in the summary in the more detailed thing they linked to and as you point out the code of conduct is 2020. Either way I don’t think it’s related to consumer communications or traffic but you all can decide what you want to think. Merry Christmas!
From what I can tell this has nothing to do with user-end interactions; this policy seems to apply to third party services (like Broadband) interacting with the T-Mobile network, and the aim is to cut down on spam.
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Yep, but the ISP is much more important to shield traffic from. A no logs VPN with options for wise node and exit location choices is an excellent privacy start. A person can run TOR inside the VPN to obfuscate traffic from the VPN provider.