Intellectual Property Law

Wireless Companies Say that they Can Censor Your Speech--Tell the FCC They Can't!Public Knowledge - Blogging, Events, and Action Alerts

This Monday, April 14, is the deadline for submitting reply comments to the FCC on the issue of whether wireless phone companies should be able to block text messages based on their source or content. Several months ago, Public Knowledge, Free Press and a number of other organizations filed a petition asking the FCC to declare such practices to be illegal. The petition arose out of two incidents involving wireless companies: 1) Verizon refused to give a ?short code? to the National Abortion Rights Action League to disseminate an action alert text message its members asked to receive, but which Verizon determined to be too controversial; and 2) Verizon, T-Mobile and Alltell refused to carry the text messages of competitive Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) providers.

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Full post as published by IP Law Daily on April 09, 2008 (boomark / email).