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Not surprising. See https://www.politico.com/news/2021/07/12/biden-covid-vaccination-campaign-499278. "Biden allied groups, including the Democratic National Committee, are also planning to engage fact-checkers more aggressively and work with SMS carriers to dispel misinformation about vaccines that is sent over social media and text messages."

Sounds like they want to block personal text messages between individuals. May be time seek advice from Mike Tyson regarding carrier pigeons or in 2021 maybe a fleet of drones.

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That’s fine. I’ll just never believe another thing the CDC, FDA or WHO say. So I’ll just do the opposite of what they recommend and rely on the advice of my nutritionist physician.

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That's great, but not enough. You also need to be actively fighting. I know, it's exhausting, and feels hopeless. But that's no excuse.

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This was a concern I had as well about SMS messages. It is bad enough that our messages are recorded by the telecom carriers. Now we have the risk the DNC will publicly (or secretly) for censorship of our private communications. Maybe even have non-government third parties look through our data (and likely leak it).

Such a fate of loss of privacy has happened to California gun owners as the state decided to give ownership records whole sale to the University of California, the same organization that lost track of government secret data at Los Alamos National Laboratories (really disappointing story in itself). Want to bet that data is leaked out to the public?

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Yep, UCLA let my health care info get hacked, so not a fan.

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