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paganbear replied on November 11, 2008 21:09 to the discussion "Welcome!" in MetroPCS:
I have just added a post as a new topic, but I'll go ahead and reply here as well. I started with MetroPCS to use its unlimited websearching feature for certain sites I liked accessing on the go, but they have suddenly begun blocking the sites, and I cannot get anything other than attempts to treat it as a technical issue. The sites are gay dating and profile sites. They have not changed, but have suddenly all at once begun being blocked by MetroPCS. Straight heterosexual sites have no issue. The sites in question are mobile.bear411.com, mobile.bearciti.com, and mobile.bearforest.com
For this reason, I am dropping their service, and I am very angry. I do not put up with censorship, especially when I'm paying a company to use something that I don't feel they should step in my way of. But to have this blocked due to my sexual orientation? Inexcusable.-
paganbear reported a problem in MetroPCS on November 11, 2008 20:59:
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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