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Thursday, September 27, 2007
Truthful and Good News, for a Change: Verizon calls NARAL "unsavory" and "controversial"
Yet NARAL amazingly thinks Verizon is censoring our free speech!
NARAL ought to consider that Verizon just might be listening to the predominance of its client base.
Here's the email they sent:
Last week Verizon Wireless deemed NARAL Pro-Choice America too "controversial" and "unsavory" to approve a short code for our text-messaging program.
Not familiar with the term "short code"? The bottom line is that Verizon won't let its customers access our text-messaging program.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but this claim is histrionic B.S. People can still access NARAL's program but NARAL just doesn't get their own special shorthand for accessing it.
My heart bleeds for them.
Verizon's decision sends chills down my spine. What kind of company would deny its customers who signed up to receive information the ability to use their cell phones to participate in our democracy? That's just wrong.
"Chills down my spine"? "Participate in our democracy??" Masters of grandiose melodrama, aren't they?
I've sent a letter to Verizon president and CEO Lowell McAdam asking him to end his company's policy. But Verizon hasn't contacted me with an official response - so now I'm asking for your help. Please send your own message to Verizon opposing their decision today!
The principle at stake here is simple. Verizon Wireless' customers have every right to decide what actions to take with their phones, regardless of their political views.
And if Verizon Wireless customers have the right to "short code" the North-American Man-Boy Love Association, the Ku Klux Klan or the Neonazis, NARAL should support that too, I suppose. After all, they'd want to reach their members quicker and have one-button donating capabilities too, wouldn't they?
If you think that Verizon, which controls 25 percent of the cell-phone market, has no business deciding what information their customers can and can't receive, I hope you take action today.
Umm...Verizon isn't deciding that you can't access NARAL by texting at all..
So much for the "No one rules our bodies" crowd. They want to rule everything big business does, to suit them.
I'm writing to Verizon to say thank you and well done. "Please send your own message to Verizon supporting their decision today!" The e m a i l a d d r e s s appears to be his first name, then a dot, then his last name, then "at" verizon "dot" com (replacing the "at" and the "dot", getting rid of the spaces, you know the drill). I just wrote him and there's been no "message failure" return bounceback.
Lowell C. McAdam CEO and President Verizon Wireless
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