{"id":453,"date":"2006-12-08T03:53:51","date_gmt":"2006-12-08T08:53:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.suramya.com\/blog\/2006\/12\/08\/allowing-users-to-unlock-cellphones-supports-terrorism\/"},"modified":"2006-12-08T03:53:51","modified_gmt":"2006-12-08T08:53:51","slug":"allowing-users-to-unlock-cellphones-supports-terrorism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.suramya.com\/blog\/2006\/12\/allowing-users-to-unlock-cellphones-supports-terrorism\/","title":{"rendered":"Allowing users to unlock cellphones supports terrorism."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yes, you read that correctly. Atleast thats what TracFone is arguing in court right now. Are they really that stupid? I mean come on, some people have used terrorism to scare people into giving up a lot of things but this one takes the cake.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Pre-paid cell phone company TracFone is arguing in court that allowing people to unlock their cell phones and use them with competing carriers will support terrorism.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This is getting beyond ridiculous. They should be fined for making such a stupid claim and wasting people&#8217;s time. There are a lot of reasons why people might want to unlock their phone and none of them support terrorism. Here are a couple:<\/p>\n<p>* I want to use my phone in another country, I will have to unlock it before I can use it. (Yes had to get this done multiple times)<\/p>\n<p>* Want to switch carriers. Oh you mean I should stick with a crappy service and pay more than I should if I want to use the phone I bought and like?<\/p>\n<p>I am sure there are more but its late and I can&#8217;t think of any right now&#8230; Feel free to add any you might think of.<\/p>\n<p>Source:  <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.wired.com\/27bstroke6\/2006\/12\/tracfone_cell_p.html\">27B Stroke 6<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.wired.com\/news\/columns\/0,72241-0.html\">How the exception was won<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Suramya<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yes, you read that correctly. Atleast thats what TracFone is arguing in court right now. Are they really that stupid? I mean come on, some people have used terrorism to scare people into giving up a lot of things but this one takes the cake. Pre-paid cell phone company TracFone is arguing in court that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":3,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-453","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newsarticles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.suramya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/453","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.suramya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.suramya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.suramya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.suramya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=453"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.suramya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/453\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.suramya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=453"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.suramya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=453"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.suramya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=453"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}