AT&T to me: we won't terminate users for "voicing their opinions," but...
An ATT spokesperson has just emailed me with the company's response to controversies surrounding their "right" to terminate service to those who have been quite critical of the company in public forums:
AT&T respects its subscribers’ rights to voice their opinions and concerns over any matter they wish. However, we retain the right to disassociate ourselves from websites and messages explicitly advocating violence, or any message that poses a threat to children (e.g. child pornography or exploitation). We do not terminate customer service solely because a customer speaks negatively about AT&T.
This policy is not new and it’s not unique to AT&T.
As a result of our recent mergers, we have simply incorporated language from the AT&T Yahoo! High Speed Internet Terms of Service into the Terms of Service for our legacy Worldnet and BellSouth customers. The language is consistent with that of previous documents for those companies, and is equally consistent with former AT&T and its legacy companies’ policies.
Well, that's one spokesperson's view of things. I have worked with him before, and he has always been honest.
So just to make sure, let's see if the offending language is still there.
BRB...
So whichizzzit?
Maybe this is a case of lawyer-inserted CYA boilerplate?