Hooboy folks, we’re about to go down a rabbit hole here. Fair warning: there are multiple ways to interpret the tale we’re about to hear, and fans on both sides of the aisle are already frothing at the mouth over this.
A user at MacInTouch was attempting to send out a rather politically charged email over his MobileMe account, but it never sent. He was attempting to send this message to a mailing list:
The authoritarian Governments in Syria, Greece, Saudi Arabia and Yemen continue to oppress and massacre their own citizens. Their manipulative and combative attempts at controlling the media and their citizens are unethical and illegal. They continue to oppress its own citizens through beatings, harassment, jailing and killings.
Stop the oppression of innocent Arab People!!!
Take a stand against Authoritarian Oppressive Regimes!
Equal Rights to all people!
However, even though his other emails went through fine, this one refused to. It would just never arrive at the intended recipient, and it wouldn’t bounce back either.
CultOfMac tried sending the email themselves, and found that using MobileMe’s web interface the messages wouldn’t arrive, but piping them through Mail went just fine.
Apple spokeswoman Trudy Muller commented on the issue, saying:
“We want to make clear that Apple is not blocking MobileMe email due to political content. Occasionally, MobileMe’s automated spam filters may block legitimate user emails by mistake. If a customer feels that a legitimate email of theirs was blocked this way, we encourage them to get in touch and report the issue to MobileMe support.”
Users are now chiming in with their own experiences. Some say Apple’s censoring people. Some say this is spam filtering gone askew. Some say they’ve tried sending the message themselves without any problems.
Curious, no?
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