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Senators Urge FCC to Preserve Neutrality Protections for Text Messages

posted by martyb on Sunday December 09 2018, @07:07PM   
from the just-pass-a-law dept.

upstart writes in with a submission, via IRC, for SoyCow1984:

Senators urge FCC to preserve neutrality protections for text messages

The FCC is considering classifying texts as an information service in order to give carriers more tools to fight automated messages and spam texts. However, the Senators don't see the need. The Telecom Consumer Protection Act (TCPA) already requires senders to get permission from a receiver before sending an automated text. Additionally, there is concern that carriers might block legitimate bulk messages. Verizon did so in 2007 when it stopped women's rights advocacy group Naral Pro-Choice America from sending a mass text to its members because the content was considered controversial.

Here is the original letter (pdf).

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Original Submission

• full of shit, as usual (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday December 10 2018, @05:33PM

  by Anonymous Coward on Monday December 10 2018, @05:33PM (#772433)

  "The Telecom Consumer Protection Act (TCPA) already requires senders to get permission from a receiver before sending an automated text. "

  that's funny. all i get is text spam...that i'm probably being charged for which makes it theft. i guess the pigs are too busy stealing from working people to do their jobs.

  "Additionally, there is concern that carriers might block legitimate bulk messages. Verizon did so in 2007 when it stopped women's rights advocacy group Naral Pro-Choice America from sending a mass text to its members because the content was considered controversial."

  scumbags not doing their jobs (including the useless government and it's enforcers that are supposed to be enforcing the law) is a different matter.