Verizon’s Policy finally gets it in trouble
In the paper Wireless Carterfone I highlighted a policy that seem destined to get Verizon in trouble: its practice of deciding who gets to send mass text messages. The policy sets Verizon up for obvious violations of Net Neutrality.
Reality caught up as Verizon is now facing criticism for blocking mass text messages from NARA, Pro-Choice America, who Verizon’s policy blocked as too controversial.
This is a test case for what common carriage and net neutrality are all about. It shows the link between net neutrality and free speech: what we see here is a problem of private discrimination, not public. That’s not a concern for the First Amendment, but it has been a concern met with by rules of common carriage –