AT&T: Sign Up and Lose Your Freedom Of Speech

Why Steve, WHY AT&T!!!? The carrier that is home to the greatest phone ever has taken its goal of world control one step further. They have introduced their new "Terms of Service", which basically state that if you write or say anything about AT&T that AT&T doesn't like, they will cut you off like John From Cincinatti on HBO.

--5.1 Suspension/Termination. Your Service may be suspended or terminated if your payment is past due and such condition continues un-remedied for thirty (30) days. In addition, AT&T may immediately terminate or suspend all or a portion of your Service, any Member ID, electronic mail address, IP address, Universal Resource Locator or domain name used by you, without notice, for conduct that AT&T believes (a) violates the Acceptable Use Policy; (b) constitutes a violation of any law, regulation or tariff (including, without limitation, copyright and intellectual property laws) or a violation of these TOS, or any applicable policies or guidelines, or (c) tends to damage the name or reputation of AT&T, or its parents, affiliates and subsidiaries. Termination or suspension by AT&T of Service also constitutes termination or suspension (as applicable) of your license to use any Software. AT&T may also terminate or suspend your Service if you provide false or inaccurate information that is required for the provision of Service or is necessary to allow AT&T to bill you for Service.--

That is the lite part of this thing, it gets worse and worse. From this day forward, you are bound by your contractual agreement to do nothing but praise AT&T. If you value your service, don't write anything bad on this or any other blog out there. Get a cup of coffee, a danish hold all your calls and read

Comments

[scott]

AT&T is a bunch of assholes who's company policy and terms of service were personally written by the devil. Oh, wait.. Does that tend to "damage the name or reputation of AT&T, or its parents, affiliates and subsidiaries". Good.

I wish terrible terrible deaths to any/every person who decides any policy there. They treat customers like crap money like a deity.

[Mpaper]

AMEN!!!

[pjcedog]

If I trash AT&T and they slap me down do I lose my Dish Network also? after all it was a package deal.

[Mikes Air Conditioning Repair]

I don't want to go negative but this is way outside the area of reasonable response