censorship

After I read an article detailing the illegal censorship acts committed by major cell phone companies I was shocked, although I shouldn't have been. These kinds of acts have become increasingly commonplace, and it really is "shrivelling the first amendment." 

The details are as follows. Verizon has a legal and standard program to ensure that spam text messages are not sent out to users. NARAL is a text message service which gives information about abortions to those individuals who subscribed to it, this is legal and standard. What is not standard is that Verizon consciously sensored these messages, ensuring that they never reached the subscribers.  This was a highly risky maneuver done to harm the pro-choice movement, and stop the spread of information about abortions. This made me cringe. 

One can only imagine similar cases that are currently ongoing, which have yet to be disclosed.