NARAL more or less disqualified itself from the public debate when it virtually (and provably falsely) accused Chief Justice John Roberts of providing legal assistance to an abortion-clinic bomber.
Good on you, Verizon. NARAL’s messages are crap.
Interesting case for sure.
They are right. I know some on here applauded Verizon at first but it was a very shortsighted thing to support. You know that precident would have been used on our causes too.
Any questions?
Strange bedfellows indeed, but if Verizon or any other carrier is allowed to do this, Free Republic could be blocked.
“Last month, Verizon Wireless refused to approve NARAL Pro-Choice America’s application for a text-messaging “short code,” a program that enables people to voluntarily sign up to receive updates by texting a five-digit code. When NARAL Pro-Choice America protested, the nation’s second-largest wireless carrier initially claimed the right to block any content “that, in its discretion, may be seen as controversial or unsavory.””
This is silly. I had to acquire shortcodes for my company and it is a pain in the butt. The carriers are pretty strict on handing out these shortcodes, and when you do get one, you have to abide by all these rules. For example, they closely regulate the format of messages you send out, and you have to make it so that people can easily opt out of getting messages from that short code, and find more information about it.
If they are so strict on just the format and use of shortcodes I’m not surprised to see them being strict about message content.
But pretty much the most interesting part about this article is that the mobile providers make a TON of money on SMS. If they rejected an application from NARAL I guess they figured not too many people would want to get updates on baby-killing sent to their phone.
And along that same line of reasoning I seriously doubt they would ban sites like FR in the same way, since gives the traffic stats of this place they would be losing a very good business opportunity.