Palm tries to give Pre tethering hack chat the chop

How do you prevent hardcore hardware enthusiasts from coming up with ways to hack a cellphone in order to add tethering? You ask them "politely" not to do it!

This from the Pre Dev Wiki page on tethering:

We have been politely cautioned by Palm that any discussion of tethering during the Sprint exclusivity period (and perhaps beyond-we don't know yet) will probably cause Sprint to complain to Palm, and if that happened then Palm would be forced to react against the people running the IRC channel and this wiki.

We want to retain a good relationship with Palm, hence we are not allowing discussion of tethering on the IRC channel, or in this wiki.

Note that Sprint does not have a plan available for use with the Pre which allows tethering under the Terms Of Service.

Once there is a version of the Pre available for a carrier that does allow tethering, or an unlocked GSM version, then we may be able to change this policy.

Color me skeptical, but I don't think that clamping down on one website is going to deter unauthorized tethering one bit.

[UPDATE: After all, tethering the Palm Pre isn't that difficult ...]