On Friday 28 September 2007 08:47:02 Petri Laihonen wrote: > 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.... >
They make allowances for this particular message, but reserve the right to block future messages at their discretion. As a private company, that is their right, since common carrier laws don't apply to SMS. We may not like it, but if it's not a state actor, it's not a 1st amendment issue. There are other carriers that, as far as we know, don't have these types of things going on. -- Thanks, Fernando Vilas fvilas at iname.com -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 189 bytes Desc: This is a digitally signed message part. Url : http://mail.brlug.net/pipermail/general_brlug.net/attachments/20070928/ba4f74b4/attachment.bin
