T-Mobile Sued For Blocking Marijuana Texts

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T-Mobile Sued For Blocking Marijuana Texts

Joe | Sep 17, 2010
Adding to a long list of companies known to be hostile to cannabis and its culture – including beer companies, Wal-Mart, and Facebook – comes cell phone provider T-Mobile. It seems they didn’t like the company EZ Texting doing business with weedmaps.com and shut down their service.

“T-Mobile has cut off my code and put my business in jeopardy,” Shane Neman, CEO of EZ Texting told DailyFinance. “There’s nothing illegal about knowing about legal dispensaries in the states they are legal in.”

And EZ Texting is suing T-Mobile.

“EZ Texting is being irreparably damaged in its business because of the blocking by T-Mobile,” Neman said in a declaration to the court. “The ability to exchange text messages with all cell phone users is vital to EZ Texting’s business.”

It makes me wonder exactly what goes through the heads of the top executives of these companies. Do they really not comprehend how many cannabis users are out there? What is gained by these little political statements?

It is time we made these companies pay dearly for their hostility towards us. We have economic power, and we must use it. If you are a cannabis user who uses T-Mobile, find another phone carrier. Let them know how you feel about their policies; don’t give them your money.

- Joe Klare

http://the420times.com/2010/09/t-mobile ... ana-texts/

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Damn .. ive just been given a new phone with tmobile as provider .. it will be changed today

[Ziggy]

It is time we made these companies pay dearly for their hostility towards us. We have economic power, and we must use it. If you are a cannabis user who uses T-Mobile, find another phone carrier. Let them know how you feel about their policies; don’t give them your money.

Love this last little bit here. We really do have a lot of consumer power because really, we are the generation that are the biggest marijuana consumers, and the biggest consumers in general. I mean advertisements are directed towards our age groups and interests.

It would make sense that if a company releases a statement saying, "High school kids are retarded, and college kids are just dumb" that a lot of us probably would no longer give that company any business. It just sucks that because Marijuana is illegal, we kind of turn the other cheek on the matter.