Why Make Your Own Choices, When Verizon Can Make Them For You?

It's funny when you find ideological leanings in the most unlikely of places (or services).

Take, for instance, Verizon Wireless. According to an article in the New York Times, the company has decided to block messages from Naral Pro-Choice America due to the concern that some of its members may find such messages "unsavory".

Though the wireless carrier is legally considered to be a "private" company and can make any such decisions freely, how fair is it for Verizon to decide what is "unsavory" for their customers?

Shouldn't the customers have a say in this decision? Afterall, the only members who would be recieving the messages are those who signed up for the service.

It's really very simple: if you don't want Naral Pro-Choice updates, don't sign up.

Even if Verizon's spokesperson, Jeffrey Nelson, asserts that "it is the topic itself" (not the group or their particular stance) that the company is trying to keep off the radar,

I still cannot help but wonder if the situation would've been different had it been a Pro-Life group.