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Is MetroPCS anti-gay?
I'm a customer who used the MetroPCS r450 phone and enjoyed the use of its web-surfing. There are websites that I used to keep in touch and communicate in the city of Atlanta with others. Sadly, I cannot do that anymore.
It was only a few days ago when I accessed the sites and had only this message come up:
Access to this website is no
longer supported by MetroPCS;
please return to the homepage.
To be honest, if I'm paying for websurfing features, I surely don't need a company to censor me out of any site I feel like using, or certainly pay to use. Censorship of any kind is inexcusable in that sort of transaction. But it's the particular type of sites that I was blocked from using that is angering me.
You see, the sites that I found myself blocked from are mobile.bear411.com and mobile.bearforest.com, which are both gay dating and profile sites. These sites have not changed in any way. Metro simply blocked both of them at the same time. I have attempted to call Metro and each time they have attempted to fix this issue as though it were a technical problem, no matter how many times and how clearly I have expressed this as a censorship issue.
Furthermore, I have tried accessing straight, heterosexual dating sites and found no blocking whatsoever. Censorship of any kind is something I don't need the company I pay to offer me. But censorship based on my sexual orientation, as this seems to be, is inexcusable.
I am this weekend ending my service with MetroPCS.
Ray Lilley, Conyers, GA
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It was only a few days ago when I accessed the sites and had only this message come up:
Access to this website is no
longer supported by MetroPCS;
please return to the homepage.
To be honest, if I'm paying for websurfing features, I surely don't need a company to censor me out of any site I feel like using, or certainly pay to use. Censorship of any kind is inexcusable in that sort of transaction. But it's the particular type of sites that I was blocked from using that is angering me.
You see, the sites that I found myself blocked from are mobile.bear411.com and mobile.bearforest.com, which are both gay dating and profile sites. These sites have not changed in any way. Metro simply blocked both of them at the same time. I have attempted to call Metro and each time they have attempted to fix this issue as though it were a technical problem, no matter how many times and how clearly I have expressed this as a censorship issue.
Furthermore, I have tried accessing straight, heterosexual dating sites and found no blocking whatsoever. Censorship of any kind is something I don't need the company I pay to offer me. But censorship based on my sexual orientation, as this seems to be, is inexcusable.
I am this weekend ending my service with MetroPCS.
Ray Lilley, Conyers, GA
[private data removed]
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Inappropriate?Hi paganbear,
I'm a community moderator here on Get Satisfaction. To protect your private information I'm going to remove your email address & phone number from your post.
I hope you are able to find a satisfactory resolution to this issue! Sure smells fishy. -
Inappropriate?I have also had the experience of website interruptus! What once was no longer seems to be. Apparently it's not just about "gay", perhaps it's "sexplicit adult stuff" in general, because the sites I could no longer browse to were not so specific, and frankly, nobody else's business. As a free mature citizen, I have to strongly agree with your anger about such censorship. This is the true deviant abberation, and I applaud your active response. I hope you found what you wanted, though it probobly cost alot more.
