AT&T - “We can turn you off, if you bad mouth us.”
Apparently, AT&T has changed its Terms of Service and can terminate or suspend your account if you say bad things about them. From the Boing Boing post that brought this to my attention:
AT&T has brought down new Terms of Service for its network customers. From now on, AT&T can terminate your connection for conduct that "tends to damage the name or reputation of AT&T, or its parents, affiliates and subsidiaries." So AT&T customers aren’t allowed to write/podcast/vlog critical things about AT&T, its billing-practices, or its cooperation with illegal NSA wiretapping, on pain of having their connections disconnected.
Here is a link to AT&T’s new Terms of Service. The section in question is 5.1(c). Read it for yourself.
Recently, I had been contemplating moving from Clearwire’s service to DSL or Cable to get more consistent speeds. However, I don’t think I will be making that move now. Fortunately, or unfortunately, this is something that AT&T is allowed to do. We need to vote with our dollars if you don’t like these terms of service.