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Censoring in SMS messages. Certain anti-abortion links, and a distributed youtube alternative are censored.

• josephcsible 5y ago
  In particular, the links they tried were: * https://odysee.com/ https://odysee.com/ * https://freethestates.com/ https://freethestates.com/ * https://freethestates.org/ https://freethestates.org/ * https://freethestates.org/who-we-are/ https://freethestates.org/who-we-are/ Any SMS, whether incoming or outgoing, with any of these links is silently dropped.
  • megraf 5y ago
    It's the free part. Twilio will also flag patterns like this. We built a contactless workflow that was being censored, and it was due to a similar substring appearing in the link. It was a pain in the ass to figure out
    • jlund-molfese 5y ago
      From the Reddit thread and my own testing, links like “ https://free-test.com/” https://free-test.com/” go through fine from a T-Mobile phone. These URLs T-Mobile blocks appear to be individually treated differently, for whatever reason.
      • megraf 5y ago
        Interesting, thanks for checking it out!
    • markovbot 5y ago
      Other sites like ddosecrets.com and itsgoingdown.org are also affected. Neither have the string "free" in them
  • JobDestroyer 5y ago
    Other sites that are blocked are ddosecrets.com, canadiancovidcarealliance.org
  • loudlambda 5y ago
    Also: https://barnhardt.biz https://barnhardt.biz A friend tried to send me a link to that blog back in June in regards to investing in cattle, and T-Mobile blocked it. Only noticed the missing message because the conversation didn't read right.