In
a 2012 legal brief to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit
Verizon argued the Constitution gives the phone company the right to
control everyone’s online information.
A news radio station
in New
York reports that the broadband and telecommunications company Verizon
is now scanning customer email.
If email contains a hyperlink to a website, the email is rejected and
not sent to the recipient, according to 95.1 FM in New York City.
After a customer complained about the policy the corporation told him
there isn’t a way to op-put of the program.
“Verizon scans the digital signatures of all inbound and outbound email
messages to reduce the overall volume of spam on our network” and all
email containing a hyperlink will be considered spam.
“So if a business person needs to get information to a colleague, or a
student needs to get research to a fellow student, or if a wife wants
to share an interesting recipe with a friend . . . all those
emails
will be rejected by Verizon!” the radio station website explains.
In
October Matt Drudge told the Alex Jones Show the very foundation of the
free internet is under severe threat from copyright laws that could ban
independent media outlets. Drudge said he was told directly by a
Supreme Court Justice, “It’s over for me.”
“Just as a newspaper is entitled to decide which content to publish and
where, broadband providers may feature some content over others.”
In other words, Verizon believes it has “editorial discretion” over
what news and information its customers may access.
The following year the company went before the appeals court and said
it has the right to block content that cannot or will not pay a toll.
In 2007 Verizon Wireless blocked text messages it deemed “controversial
or unsavory.”
The
full horror
