[brlug-general] SMS censoring

[Petri Laihonen]

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....

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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
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