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Excerpts from the Oct 2025 Astound Broadband AUP:

When using the Access Service:

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g) Obscenity. You agree not to post or transmit any obscene or pornographic content, including, but not limited to, child pornography, on or through the Access Service.

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l) Scrolling. You agree not to cause the screen to “scroll” faster than other subscribers or users are able to type to it, or any action to a simila

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[–] RubberElectrons@lemmy.world 14 points 1 month ago

What the fuck? Sucks for the person whose internet I'm stealing.

[–] CompactFlax@discuss.tchncs.de 8 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Sounds like someone hasn’t updated since IRC days. Or BBS. Ancient.

[–] tidderuuf@lemmy.world 7 points 1 month ago (1 children)

That pretty much sums up Astounds services. I think in the last few years they finally figured out how to do payments online and just recently had the techs switch to digital work orders instead of using paper and clipboards.

[–] CompactFlax@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

So, still better than Slack.

[–] rainwall@piefed.social 6 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)