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According to the video, links to Odysee (a YouTube alternative) and Free The States (an anti-abortion websites) are blocked. People on Reddit [1] also corroborate this. Corporate censorship exists, it is generally biased politically, and is not OK.

[1]: https://old.reddit.com/r/GoldandBlack/comments/rs2wqr/appare...

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PS. Here are a couple of things that I think are worth clarifying:

* This about them blocking links to the websites in an SMS message, not DNS blacklisting or deep packet inspection.

* Their blocking system seems pretty dumb in general. Apparently, it is even blocking lichess.org [2], the whole .xyz TLD, and stochastically Jacobin (the National Review of the left).

[2]: Thanks to @lynndotpy for confirming this.

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> system seems pretty dumb in general.

Yes it kinda a MVP "designed" to block spam, phishing and similar.

Which then is all the time abused to block other thinks.

Like the UK "adult content" (i.e. porn) filter is all the time abused to block other thinks (like the ticket website for the C3C in the past).

Or like CCP minions (1) sneak sensitive terms in lists of Chinese insults to block them.

And because all "censoring" of non-adult-only, phishing, etc. content is supposedly just a random mistake you can guess how that never ever has any consequences.

(1): Sometimes state sponsored people, sometimes CCP favoring Chinese nationalists etc.

CCP nationalists is an, ahem, interesting concept.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kuomintang

Ok I didn't know this.

I meant people which put effort into hiding darker parts of there national and/or governments history without being payed in any way. But instead because of some form of their "national" pride.

The Reuters story linked in the Reddit thread has the FCC reassuring us this authority is for bulk messages only.

To be clear, for the benefit of those who are reading these comments before watching the video, this censorship happens even to single messages sent between individuals' personal phones, so it doesn't fall within that authority.

I just tested this with my wife and odysee is being blocked over SMS. If you send it over RCS, it works fine.

That makes sense, as Google's extension to RCS does have a form of "end-to-end" encryption.

(Deleted, with apologies for the misunderstanding, and thanks to lynndotpy for the clarification.)

To be clear, it's not T-Mobile censoring access, it's T-Mobile blocking texts with these URLs.

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