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Title: No dissent allowed..............................
Post by: Kosh on September 29, 2007, 10:57:18 am
Under AT&T's new terms of service.


http://yro.slashdot.org/yro/07/09/29/104252.shtml
Title: Re: No dissent allowed..............................
Post by: Prophet on September 29, 2007, 11:24:53 am
Once again I point my finger at America and laugh. :lol:
Title: Re: No dissent allowed..............................
Post by: Herra Tohtori on September 29, 2007, 11:27:56 am
Heh, I guess their next move is to suspend their own access to Internet and find another service provider, because their actions definitely harm their reputation...

 :rolleyes: :lol:
Title: Re: No dissent allowed..............................
Post by: diceman111 on September 29, 2007, 11:34:19 am
I still dont understan how they come up with this stuff, was there a meating like :

"So what should we put in the new terms of service"
"I dont know, that you arent allowed to shoot people while talking"
"No lets make it so that we can shut down their acount for anything we see unfit, cause that will not make our customers angry or anything"


/Dice
Title: Re: No dissent allowed..............................
Post by: BloodEagle on September 29, 2007, 12:39:11 pm
One day they'll go too far, and I'll laugh as I watch their buildings burn down.

I use AT&T, so my access will be terminated in 3..2..*crish*
Title: Re: No dissent allowed..............................
Post by: Nuke on September 29, 2007, 02:02:46 pm
they have desecrated the ancient grounds upon which the sacred internet providers of old once stood! the earth must be clensed by fire!
Title: Re: No dissent allowed..............................
Post by: Mars on September 29, 2007, 02:50:44 pm
I'm glad it wasn't Qwest again...

they make up a good chunk of Denver's economy
Title: Re: No dissent allowed..............................
Post by: karajorma on September 29, 2007, 03:11:37 pm
Hmmm. Maybe this is actually a good thing and the plan is to kick people offline who act like n00bs. :D AOL for instance used to have a reputation as the ISP for idiots. It got so bad that pretty much anyone using was instantly assumed to be an idiot by the wider internet.

Maybe that's who they plan to kick offline. :D Those sort of people would definitely fit the description of the ToS.


Oh and a cookie to the first person to humorously photoshop the Soup Nazi into an AT&T setting with the caption "No Internet for you!"
Title: Re: No dissent allowed..............................
Post by: NGTM-1R on September 29, 2007, 03:39:15 pm
They have horrible phone service too.
Title: Re: No dissent allowed..............................
Post by: BloodEagle on September 29, 2007, 05:53:04 pm
Oh and a cookie to the first person to humorously photoshop the Soup Nazi into an AT&T setting with the caption "No Internet for you!"

(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v74/GenoStar/atn.png)
Title: Re: No dissent allowed..............................
Post by: Herra Tohtori on September 29, 2007, 05:58:45 pm
Hmmm. Maybe this is actually a good thing and the plan is to kick people offline who act like n00bs. :D


...Actually, I could totally respect that kind of customer service policy. You know the place where Lucas works in CAD? That kind of ISP could actually get some loyal customers - assuming they were competent.

(http://www.ctrlaltdel-online.com/comics/20040719.jpg?) (http://www.ctrlaltdel-online.com/comic.php?d=20040719)
[CAD 2004-07-19]

These always make me smile... ;7
Title: Re: No dissent allowed..............................
Post by: DiabloRojo on October 01, 2007, 03:01:24 pm
This is what happens when you let *Bell*.* reform into its original AT&T monopoly.  As if the existing Bell companies didn't already re-write the epitome of suck on a daily basis for the past two decades, with the possible exception of Verizon.

I hope EVERYONE violates this so they effectively remove their entire client base and go under.  Hard.  Wishful thinking, I know, but I can dream, can I not?

AOL for instance used to have a reputation as the ISP for idiots. It got so bad that pretty much anyone using was instantly assumed to be an idiot by the wider internet.
Tell me about it... when a friend and I were running CS servers back in '00, we finally just banned the entire AOL subnet.  We sang Dennis Leary's 'I'm an Asshole' song while doing it, and the games definitely went much more smoothly afterwards. :lol:
Title: Re: No dissent allowed..............................
Post by: Mefustae on October 01, 2007, 06:18:27 pm
Maybe they just stuck it in there to see if anyone actually reads the terms of service.
Title: Re: No dissent allowed..............................
Post by: BloodEagle on October 01, 2007, 08:21:37 pm
You mean like the whole "you promise not to use the .gif animator to produce nuclear or biological weapons." thing?

P.S.
I lied.