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The First Amendment of the United States Constitution protects the right to freedom of religion and freedom of expression from government interference. See U.S. Const. amend. I. Freedom of expression consists of the rights to freedom of speech, press, assembly and to petition the government for a redress of grievances, and the implied rights of association and belief. The Supreme Court interprets the extent of the protection afforded to these rights. The First Amendment has been interpreted by the Court as applying to the entire federal government even though it is only expressly applicable to Congress. Furthermore, the Court has interpreted, the due process clause of the Fourteenth Amendment as protecting the rights in the First Amendment from interference by state governments. See U.S. Const. amend. XIV.
Jo Glanville, editor of the Index on Censorship, states that "the Internet has been a revolution for censorship as much as for free speech".[41] International, national and regional standards recognise that freedom of speech, as one form of freedom of expression, applies to any medium, including the Internet.[7] The Communications Decency Act (CDA) of 1996 was the first major attempt by the United States Congress to regulate pornographic material on the Internet. In 1997, in the landmark cyberlaw case of Reno v. ACLU, the U.S. Supreme Court partially overturned the law.[42] Judge Stewart R. Dalzell, one of the three federal judges who in June 1996 declared parts of the CDA unconstitutional, in his opinion stated the following:[43]
"The Internet is a far more speech-enhancing medium than print, the village green, or the mails. Because it would necessarily affect the Internet itself, the CDA would necessarily reduce the speech available for adults on the medium. This is a constitutionally intolerable result. Some of the dialogue on the Internet surely tests the limits of conventional discourse. Speech on the Internet can be unfiltered, unpolished, and unconventional, even emotionally charged, sexually explicit, and vulgar – in a word, "indecent" in many communities. But we should expect such speech to occur in a medium in which citizens from all walks of life have a voice. We should also protect the autonomy that such a medium confers to ordinary people as well as media magnates. [...] My analysis does not deprive the Government of all means of protecting children from the dangers of Internet communication. The Government can continue to protect children from pornography on the Internet through vigorous enforcement of existing laws criminalizing obscenity and child pornography. [...] As we learned at the hearing, there is also a compelling need for public educations about the benefits and dangers of this new medium, and the Government can fill that role as well. In my view, our action today should only mean that Government’s permissible supervision of Internet contents stops at the traditional line of unprotected speech. [...] The absence of governmental regulation of Internet content has unquestionably produced a kind of chaos, but as one of the plaintiff’s experts put it with such resonance at the hearing: "What achieved success was the very chaos that the Internet is. The strength of the Internet is chaos." Just as the strength of the Internet is chaos, so that strength of our liberty depends upon the chaos and cacophony of the unfettered speech the First Amendment protects."[43]
First lets start with what this system app is and where it even comes from, this is is essentially what it says its a demonstration app of your specific phone, can only find downloads on googleplay under tmous, for the nexus 5, nexus 7, tablet version, and Alcatel pop 7, and all are much older then the version we are working to remove right now, my phone is a HTC 1 M8, pls leave posts of what type of phone you found this app on, this app is meant for sales purposes only and should by no means be on a customer phone that has been bought and paid for, for alot of reason i will get into shortly, the website of this company which goes by Customer Mobile is crap at best, must google the site to even get to it i seem to have trouble just connecting straight to http://www.customermobile.com/
but you only need do 5 mins of decent reading to get the idea that this app is very intrusive and most likely the cause of potention privacy issues, if this app is on your phone you cell phone company can record every aspect of what you do on your phone for so called sales information to help with the developement of advertising campaigns and marketing. and the fact this comes on your ROM pre loaded hints the idea that IMO this app alone could be causing much of the privacy vulnerablilite issues found on android today, which puts everyone essentially at risk, there are some apps you can get off the goodplay store random ones work for different users that will give you a detailed behaviour print out of the app permissions and which permissions have been granted at one time or another or are activly in use, which in my own research i came to find that 90% of them have been granted and over 60% stay fully active. and im talking about the risky permissions in reading sms or anything to do with sms,phone calls, contactinfo, phoneinfo, appinfo etc. all this app seems to do is cause problems or privacy concerns directly to the user, not only is your cell company retaining this info, if your phone is rooted every app that shares the same app permission has access to this info, if not rooted, you still have the all the open vunerabilitys in the android system that this app almost just opens the door for any of them, so my main concern is to get rid of this app all together and hopfully never see it again or anything like it.
IF you dissable this app as a unrooted user, it will still show up in your process menu, it still runs? why... no other app does but this one, it allows you to disable it which should turn it off completely but time and time again i see it when boosting my phone with CM cleaner, 360 security, and other apps, i just use those 2 tho.
For a unrooted device the best way to deal with this is saddly to have to unlock ur boot loader aquire root permission and delete this app, then reroot you device so your warranty stays in contact.
a few ways i have seem work randomly include, just disabling the app, worked the first few times i did it, has stopped working since
one way that works pretty decentldy but only while the action is constently in place is using a password to lock the specific app permissions, so as for the pressions for loaction services, you would lock Settings and or location option it self if possible on ur phone, the permissions that allows it to send text, same thing using a password to lock you messeges application, so on and so forth for each subsaquent permission.
I insist that you call your cell phone company provider and speicifcly request this app be removed from the phone by the company, i have heard of this happening for few individuals but apparently not a system wide thing, but the best chance you would have would be getting ahold of a supervisior maybe in the tech department and making the case of what ive been tryin to say, look for something in the legal binding information and privacy statements and provide only viable concerns, i advise you to try and find specific info on you specific phone and carrier and phone manufacture and state with the upmost unrest the security concern behind this app, trust me if you **bleep** and moan enough and give factual evidence both some i have provided and as much as you can find, i advise going to google play and finding as many apps that have a app auditor, advisor, or detailed reports of system apps cause thats where you will get ur most proof, my phone is in mail on its way back to be having this done as we speak, thanks for reading hope this helps clear any confusion up in the public about this app, if enough of us raise hell about it, we can make a case and have this gone for good, if you just want to root your devise for a few mins and delete it by all means if you dont know how plz contact me with your phone, software update or current ROM and manufacture and i can give for mostly any phone the easiest and safest way to succeed in this.