<story><title>T-Mobile CEO to EFF: ‘Who the Fuck Are You?’</title><url>https://motherboard.vice.com/read/t-mobile-ceo-to-eff-who-the-fuck-are-you?utm_source=mbtwitter</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Someone1234</author><text>We pay the Electronic Frontier Foundation. Consumers, geeks, and the privacy&amp;#x2F;digital rights inclined. They&amp;#x27;re doing exactly what donors want them to be doing, including this Binge On thing (which is part of a larger Net Neutrality struggle).&lt;p&gt;I am a T-Mobile customer. And when they first introduced Binge On I was mostly happy (Net Neutrality notwithstanding): seemed like a fair trade, for certain sites you lost video bandwidth but in return received unlimited streaming.&lt;p&gt;However T-Mobile&amp;#x27;s implementation is bad and worse still they weren&amp;#x27;t honest about what Binge On does. It is a completely different arrangement between ONLY limiting sites that signed up, and interfering in third parties who did not, and don&amp;#x27;t even get me started on limiting video file download rates (i.e. not streaming).&lt;p&gt;The CEO is just acting like an idiot. Consumer rights groups, like the EFF, are completely entitled to &amp;quot;stir things up&amp;quot; when large national corporations start acting poorly. If you guys didn&amp;#x27;t want to be called out, perhaps you could have been more honest to begin with?
So as a T-Mobile customer, I am 100% behind EFF on this one. If they started attacking the EFF regularly I&amp;#x27;ll change networks (e.g. Project Fi), because I value the EFF more than T-Mobile.&lt;p&gt;PS - Amazon&amp;#x27;s Smile.Amazon.com supports EFF donations, as an aside.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>epistasis</author><text>I &lt;i&gt;really&lt;/i&gt; like the concept of the EFF, and &lt;i&gt;really&lt;/i&gt; like most of their work, but when I was reading their blog I quickly started to feel like they go off half-cocked too often. When I first saw summaries of their report my guess was just that there in turning BingeOn on&amp;#x2F;off on a single account, or that there were temporary configuration problems on T-Mobile&amp;#x27;s side.&lt;p&gt;Some people like the idea of supporting an out-there extreme to keep the Overton window shifted to an appropriate place. I can see the logic in it, but I value truth first.&lt;p&gt;T-mobile&amp;#x27;s CEO&amp;#x27;s schtick is to act like this, and I don&amp;#x27;t really appreciate that much either, but I do appreciate T-mobile&amp;#x27;s small movements to make the cell phone market more fluid by getting rid of contracts, and I also still like BingeOn. It gives me more control over my data than Netflix or Amazon or whomever gives me.</text></comment>
<story><title>T-Mobile CEO to EFF: ‘Who the Fuck Are You?’</title><url>https://motherboard.vice.com/read/t-mobile-ceo-to-eff-who-the-fuck-are-you?utm_source=mbtwitter</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Someone1234</author><text>We pay the Electronic Frontier Foundation. Consumers, geeks, and the privacy&amp;#x2F;digital rights inclined. They&amp;#x27;re doing exactly what donors want them to be doing, including this Binge On thing (which is part of a larger Net Neutrality struggle).&lt;p&gt;I am a T-Mobile customer. And when they first introduced Binge On I was mostly happy (Net Neutrality notwithstanding): seemed like a fair trade, for certain sites you lost video bandwidth but in return received unlimited streaming.&lt;p&gt;However T-Mobile&amp;#x27;s implementation is bad and worse still they weren&amp;#x27;t honest about what Binge On does. It is a completely different arrangement between ONLY limiting sites that signed up, and interfering in third parties who did not, and don&amp;#x27;t even get me started on limiting video file download rates (i.e. not streaming).&lt;p&gt;The CEO is just acting like an idiot. Consumer rights groups, like the EFF, are completely entitled to &amp;quot;stir things up&amp;quot; when large national corporations start acting poorly. If you guys didn&amp;#x27;t want to be called out, perhaps you could have been more honest to begin with?
So as a T-Mobile customer, I am 100% behind EFF on this one. If they started attacking the EFF regularly I&amp;#x27;ll change networks (e.g. Project Fi), because I value the EFF more than T-Mobile.&lt;p&gt;PS - Amazon&amp;#x27;s Smile.Amazon.com supports EFF donations, as an aside.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>joezydeco</author><text>@EFF: &lt;i&gt;&amp;quot;T-Mobile&amp;#x27;s CEO is dying to know who EFF is. Friends, please tweet at @JohnLegere with the hashtag #WeAreEFF to enlighten him.&amp;quot;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;twitter.com&amp;#x2F;EFF&amp;#x2F;status&amp;#x2F;685216654398099456&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;twitter.com&amp;#x2F;EFF&amp;#x2F;status&amp;#x2F;685216654398099456&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>