More "non-existing" censorship..... While providing mobile services in US, it has always bothered me why so much SMS messages get lost in carrier networks. Addition to technical incompetence, here we have another reason. Even though this source released the information as "today's news", it has already been released a day or two ago, and Verizon had since announced a change to their corporate policies to allow the content in the messages in question. However, not to spy or censor something else though....
------------------------------------------------------------------ TODAY'S TOP STORY US wireless carrier Verizon accused of censoring text messages <http://web20.telecomtv.com/pages/?newsid=41948&id=e9381817-0593-417a-8639-c4c53e2a2a10> Here we go again. The US telco, Verizon, has landed itself in the middle of a media storm after eavesdropping on and then intervening to prevent the delivery of a text message sent by and on behalf of an abortion rights advocacy group. (full story <http://web20.telecomtv.com/pages/?newsid=41948&id=e9381817-0593-417a-8639-c4c53e2a2a10>) Petri -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://mail.brlug.net/pipermail/general_brlug.net/attachments/20070928/442d80a1/attachment-0001.html
