If you have Verizon as your cellular network, don't you dare text message NARAL. It's unsavory:
Saying it had the right to block “controversial or unsavory” text messages, Verizon Wireless has rejected a request from Naral Pro-Choice America, the abortion rights group, to make Verizon’s mobile network available for a text-message program.
The other leading wireless carriers have accepted the program, which allows people to sign up for text messages from Naral by sending a message to a five-digit number known as a short code.
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In turning down the program, Verizon, one of the nation’s two largest wireless carriers, told Naral that it does not accept programs from any group “that seeks to promote an agenda or distribute content that, in its discretion, may be seen as controversial or unsavory to any of our users.” Naral provided copies of its communications with Verizon to The New York Times.
The utter boneheadedness of this decision is staggering. And I'd say the same thing if this was a text messaging service run by a pro-life organization. I would never assume Verizon endorsed an organization just because they allowed them access to their networks. But now that I know Verizon is blocking NARAL, I know that Verizon is indeed actively endorsing every organization they allow to hook into their text messaging network.
As for the "unsavory" messages, here's one NARAL shared:
Naral provided an example of a recent text message that it has sent to supporters: “End Bush’s global gag rule against birth control for world’s poorest women! Call Congress. (202) 224-3121. Thnx! Naral Text4Choice.”
The horror.
Got Verizon? Drop 'Em.
If you have Verizon as your cellular network, don't you dare text message NARAL. It's unsavory:
The utter boneheadedness of this decision is staggering. And I'd say the same thing if this was a text messaging service run by a pro-life organization. I would never assume Verizon endorsed an organization just because they allowed them access to their networks. But now that I know Verizon is blocking NARAL, I know that Verizon is indeed actively endorsing every organization they allow to hook into their text messaging network.
As for the "unsavory" messages, here's one NARAL shared:
The horror.
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Saying it had the right to block “controversial or unsavory” text messages, Verizon Wireless has rejected a request from Naral Pro-Choice America, the abortion rights group, to make Verizon’s mobile network available for a text-message program.
The other leading wireless carriers have accepted the program, which allows people to sign up for text messages from Naral by sending a message to a five-digit number known as a short code.
[...]
In turning down the program, Verizon, one of the nation’s two largest wireless carriers, told Naral that it does not accept programs from any group “that seeks to promote an agenda or distribute content that, in its discretion, may be seen as controversial or unsavory to any of our users.” Naral provided copies of its communications with Verizon to The New York Times.
The utter boneheadedness of this decision is staggering. And I'd say the same thing if this was a text messaging service run by a pro-life organization. I would never assume Verizon endorsed an organization just because they allowed them access to their networks. But now that I know Verizon is blocking NARAL, I know that Verizon is indeed actively endorsing every organization they allow to hook into their text messaging network.
As for the "unsavory" messages, here's one NARAL shared:
Naral provided an example of a recent text message that it has sent to supporters: “End Bush’s global gag rule against birth control for world’s poorest women! Call Congress. (202) 224-3121. Thnx! Naral Text4Choice.”
The horror.
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