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September 28, 2007
Verizon's NARAL Flip-Flop
Posted by Dave Blount at September 28, 2007 2:28 PM
If there's one organization that any morally sane person could identify as not just wrongheaded but satanic, it's NARAL (formerly known as National Association for the Repeal of Abortion Laws). Among its priorities is forcing people who regard abortion as murder to finance the abortions of those who consider it a convenient way to get rid of unwanted babies. It opposes banning the nightmarish procedure known as partial-birth abortion, in which a baby is partially delivered before being gruesomely murdered by having scissors jammed into his or her skull.
Considering that until today it had a policy against distributing text messages on controversial topics, it's not surprising that Verizon balked at providing this service for NARAL. But even less surprising is the way Verizon instantly caved when the left-wing media started to holler.
More disturbing than NARAL witches texting high-fives to each other for all the babies they help kill is the mentality to which Verizon so quickly capitulated. Art Brodsky sums it up, writing for HuffPo before Verizon's reversal:
At some point, responsible leadership is going to have to wake up and realize that a private company's discretion is no substitute for public standards. It might be a good idea for the FCC to spell out what rights they think consumers still have, and for Congress to make its own judgments. Discretion has its limits.
In other words, don't make liberals angry, or it will be the State that determines what can or cannot be communicated.
Personally I don't agree with Verizon regulating the content of text messages. But those who are upset about it can always take their business elsewhere. The only censor that matters is the government, which by definition (a monopoly on force) does not allow competition.
Libs don't even need to pass legislation. Just the threat of it can effect a Finlandization of private companies, as when unscrupulous goons in the Senate (including Reid, Schumer, and Durbin) threatened to pull ABC's broadcast license over Path to 9/11 because parts of it depicted Bill Clinton in an accurate but unfavorable light. As a result, three minutes of the movie were cut, and the much-anticipated DVD has not been released.
On a tip from Cheetah.
