The story is widely misreported.
They are levying fees against automated bulk messaging platforms (sms spammers, basically)
This is not a free speech thing. It’s a pay-to-spam in bulk thing.
Assuming this story has legs, as US phone carriers start to fine ppl $500 bucks for wrong think of bird app, Nostr and SimpleX anon accounts will start to look so-hot-right-now.gif
https://x.com/michelleweekley/status/1739340560106721297?s=46 
Discussion
The SMS spam is indeed out of control.
Good morning. Calling me a spammer when silent is embarrassing.
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This is how I now understand it after reading it a few times. They’re business-to-business fines for platform abuse. But it should still be a cautionary message to everyone that large companies can and will silence you if they see a reason to.
