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Thanks Verizon

29 September, 2007 (23:35) | Telecom

The battle for (NN) is not over yet. Thanks to a recent Verizon (not to mention AT&T’s censorship ) NN proponents have been handed a very big club.

Saying it had the right to block “controversial or unsavory” text messages, Verizon Wireless last week rejected a request from Pro-Choice America, the abortion rights group, to make Verizon’s mobile network available for a text-message program.0927 01 1 2

But the company reversed course this morning, saying it had made a mistake.

“The decision to not allow text messaging on an important, though sensitive, public policy issue was incorrect, and we have fixed the process that led to this isolated incident,” Jeffrey Nelson, a company spokesman, said in a statement. (more…)

Uh oh, they just proved that they will what goes over their network despite all their assurances to congress critters that they would never consider doing so. NN proponents 2, 0. Thanks ! ;)

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