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A Rising Enforcement of Censorship
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this post was submitted on 23 Jun 2024
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So much for the land of the free. Not even the EU with their chat control bullshit is pushing it so far.
Thanks for sharing the article.
Are you surprised by this? It is SMS after all. I think you could do this with a basic man in the middle.
Yeah, no security there, but I wasn’t expecting to see providers doing that. What’s the point.
I'm not surprised they could. I've worked on things that send SMS messages and I'm aware that carriers filter for spam and scams (perhaps not as effectively as one might hope).
I'm surprised to hear of messages being blocked for mere profanity.
Anyway, SMS sucks, default to something else and fall back to SMS as a last resort. Gently encourage your contacts to use Signal.
You probably could do this outside the carrier
I swear in SMS on the daily, and have shared videos of pro-Palestine protests via sms also. I'm a bit dubious. I did read the article, and it sounds like one carrier-specific issue, and (unsurprisingly) MS allowing enterprise customers to control what is said on Teams.
So two examples that are each either platform or carrier specific.
Freedom of speech is the right to express opinions without government restraint, not without corporate restraint.