{"id":2301,"date":"2007-09-27T09:13:00","date_gmt":"2007-09-27T14:13:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ibiblio.org\/pjones\/wordpress\/?p=2301"},"modified":"2007-09-27T11:16:20","modified_gmt":"2007-09-27T16:16:20","slug":"why-net-neutrality-is-essential-verizon-edition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/why-net-neutrality-is-essential-verizon-edition\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Net Neutrality is essential &#8211; Verizon edition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2007\/09\/27\/us\/27verizon.html\">The attempt by Verizon to chill speech<\/a> in the form of text-message alerts by NARAL gets<a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/posts\/tag\/Verizon+Rejects+Messages+of+Abortion+Rights+Group\"> serious considered reactions across the net &#8212; and others<\/a>. This kind of action by what should be a common carrier with no authority over content is exactly what net neutralists have feared and predicted. Thanks for making it real, Verizon. Now let&#8217;s get some legislation and enforcement in place. <\/p>\n<p>Fellow J-school blogger <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jomc.unc.edu\/faculty\/leroy_towns.html\">Leroy Townes<\/a> says <a href=\"http:\/\/weblogs.jomc.unc.edu\/talkpolitics\/?p=84\">more at his TalkPolitics blog<\/a>.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mojomom.com\/\"><br \/>\nMojoMom<\/a> Amy Tiemann <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.cnet.com\/8301-13507_1-9785927-18.html\">posts her reaction, as a concerned mom<\/a>, at her <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.cnet.com\/8300-13507_1-18.html\">CNet (parent  . thesis) blog<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s what Verizon found offensive:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>End Bush\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s global gag rule against birth control for world\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s poorest women! Call Congress. (202) 224-3121. Thnx! Naral Text4Choice<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><strong>UPDATE:<\/strong> Verizon just reversed thier position and will allow the NARAL messages <a href=\"http:\/\/www.news.com\/Verizon-Wireless-to-allow-abortion-rights-messages\/2100-1033_3-6210368.html\">says CNet<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The attempt by Verizon to chill speech in the form of text-message alerts by NARAL gets serious considered reactions across the net &#8212; and others. This kind of action by what should be a common carrier with no authority over content is exactly what net neutralists have feared and predicted. Thanks for making it real, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2301","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","post-preview"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2301","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2301"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2301\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2301"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2301"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2301"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}