I have proof they absolutely did this to me, replicated with control. I eventually had to send my friend a picture of a piece of paper with the link written on it.
I also asked AT&T if they censor personal texts and they said NO. I asked them specifically about TheDonald.Win and they said NO, after it went to a supervisor. I asked them if reading/censoring my personal text messages was something I accepted in my contract. They said NO. (I have the transcript.)
Is this relevant seeing how all these companies are linked at the elite level by shady board members and unknown executives?
I think this is completely relevant to the coup... and probably illegal.
Any thoughts?
Before you get too excited:
This has been reported by various people, and upon investigation it turned out that one of the cell phone providers was censoring *.win URLs. Not just td.win, but every *.win.
But, they were only doing it when it was coming in from another cell phone provider. If both subscribers were on the same system, nothing happened.
The reason: *.win has become a haven for dodgy gambling sites, and people spamming those URLs. *.win was supposed to be for games and Windows, but it's not limited to those sites.
Thanks... that is what I remember reading now. But, I think this is suspect and sounds like an excuse. Yes to both questions, I am here to see if this is widespread enough to include as part of the fix. TD just broke 700 - it is integral. I was told specifically that "they were not censoring thedonald.win" and that they do not censor links in messages. Also, they wouldn't take any variations: "the donald dot win" "t h e d o na l d . w in" THE DONALD DOT WIN in all caps spaced throughout text separately. With the news of this new ATT chief and his connection to shady Dems, this seems plausible to be a part of their suppression campaign?
Adding spaces to a URL is a common spammer tactic. It's very easy to write a regular expression to detect it.
You should try another *.win domain to see what happens. Don't assume customer support knows about any spam filters. They are the lowest on the totem pole in every big company, and the most clueless. You are most likely talking to a call center outside the US that only knows how to follow a script.
I just went through a series of phone calls with customer support regarding my cellphone service, and even the "supervisor" was unaware of things that were going on. Until you find the right person (which is often an actual techie that doesn't get involved except after multiple escalations), you won't get a correct answer.
Is using the word "dot" instead of punctuation a thing? How about picking out the capital words? Something is off... and it has nothing to do with protecting me from shady .win sites when I am texting personally with a contact with long term history. Of course I know I am not reaching the Chief Tech Officer of ATT with customer service... but one reply after escalation was pure legalese - "we do not censor [any] links in our customers private text messages." Thanks for the input.
Yes, "dot" in the place of . is also a common spammer tactic.
Both sides have been trading shots every since spammers realized they could send out shit for essentially free. It started with Usenet:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laurence_Canter_and_Martha_Siegel
Then, it migrated to email. Email spam now has limited effectiveness, because systems (and system administrators) have developed very effective countermeasures. I rarely get email spam now, even in my "Junk mail" folder.
Spamming via text messages wasn't profitable when you had to pay to send a message, but email-to-text gateways and other APIs have made it possible to do so for free. So, that's the new "frontier", and you are at the mercy of the cellphone providers.