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Meta, Google, etc. also sometimes randomly ban accounts for reasons unknown (AI detecting "suspicious" behavior, etc.), whereas I have never heard of phone comp
by digitallyfree 4y ago
Meta, Google, etc. also sometimes randomly ban accounts for reasons unknown (AI detecting "suspicious" behavior, etc.), whereas I have never heard of phone companies doing this.
- sowbug 4y agoFollow the money. What an attention-funded company calls "suspicious" behavior is what the phone company calls "revenue-generating" behavior. That's why my carrier seems to be utterly unable to stop spam callers (who generate revenue for them), whereas it's been nearly 20 years since I've had an email spam problem, thanks to Gmail and the businesses that pay Google to support it.
- josephcsible 4y agoIt's not nearly as common with phone companies as it is with the FAANGs, but it's definitely not unheard of either, e.g., https://www.reddit.com/r/legaladvice/comments/13j1p9/att_has_permanently_banned_me_for_something_they/ https://www.reddit.com/r/legaladvice/comments/13j1p9/att_has...
- Gigachad 4y agoThe owner of Kiwi farms also had his personal phone number terminated despite presumably not engaging in any illegal behaviour on it. I don’t believe you can do a number transfer when you get banned either.