How we discovered Verizon’s Spamdetector could be twisted into a disguise for censorship!

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sent by Sparrows since 80 days 21 hours 34 minutes, published about 79 days 3 hours 55 minutes
We had just emailed the link to our interview discussing the ‘real’ history of Afghanistan on Sibel Edmond’s boilingfrogspost. As soon as it was emailed a Verizon response spit back immediately with a notice declaring the email we had just sent was spam. When the culprit turned out to be our friend Sibel’s website we called Verizon to clear up the problem. This was clearly not spam and should be easily reinstated, we thought. While a very chatty employee attempted and failed to fix our problem, we innocently asked how can we get this address back in business. That is when the real fun began. According to the laws of Verizon Central, once you’ve been labeled spam, there is only one course of action and it goes like this: 1. Verizon uses an unnamed third party who decides what is spam. 2. This unnamed third party also reviews complaints like ours. 3. We were told to send the “offending” email to spamdetector.update@verizon.net. 4. The unnamed third party would make a secret decision within 24 hours. 5. If the unnamed third party decides it is spam, regardless of our complaint we will not hear back. That’s it. There is no recourse to challenge the decision. There isn’t even a confirmation that the email we sent to this third party was received at all. Of course, after 24 hours we still couldn’t send out an email containing the link.
tags: verizon spamdetector, censorship, emails
7 commentscategory: Abuse of Power/Corruption karma: 142

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  1. #1    A class action lawsuit was filed against the telecommunications company for allegedly blocking legitimate incoming emails to certain Verizon.net subscribers. The class includes all business and residential customers of Verizon FiOS, DSL, and dial-up Internet services in the United States at any time from October 1, 2004 to May 31, 2005, who had use of one or more email accounts on the Verizon.net email platform. Verizon adjusted its spam filters to aggressively block messages from domains in Europe and Asia. Instead of simply routing suspected spam into a separate folder, Verizon bounced messages back to the sender without notifying the intended recipient. Verizon has announced a tentative s...

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    written by Sparrows since 80 days 21 hours 32 minutesSparrows
  2. #2    "...Verizon’s anti-spam campaign could easily be twisted to disguise censorship..."

    It sounds like censorship already.
    written by kladner since 80 days 19 hourskladner
  3. #3    Please forgive me for getting off subject. What is this bullshit about Iran's war games. What is this bullshit. WTF about America's fooking war games all over Africa(i.e. Africom)http://www.voltairenet.org/article162630.html Man, stop swallowing that bullshit and wake the fook up, broda man, snap out of it! You scared, so fooking what, do something, talk about it. I'm bout to call Ripley's and them to come down and check out my neighbors who are walking around w/ their heads up their asses, 'You got to see this'! And for all those fooks who think that eradicating the human is sound, YOU LEAVE! What better evidence is there than that? Tell me, what better evidence is there?
    written by keyricster since 79 days 3 hours 20 minuteskeyricster
  4. #4    Maybe Verison subscribers should get e-mail accounts at Yahoo, G-mail, Hotmail or another 'free' account site and drop Verison as their home page. Would this get around the censorship?
    written by tahoeprogressive since 79 days 2 hours 34 minutestahoeprogressive
  5. #5    "Please forgive me for getting off subject."


    No, I am not going to forgive you for getting off the subject,keyricster. If you want a bully-pit, post your own articles and bully-pit yourself to death. But do not do it on the articles I post that like you said have nothing to do with the subject matter posted.
    written by Sparrows since 79 days 23 minutesSparrows
  6. #6    Comcast is not much better than verizon - and for that matter there is a whole lot of european IPs, who will gladly decide for you, whether or not what you send is spam... web.de is one of them.
    written by Malgoska since 78 days 21 hours 43 minutesMalgoska
  7. #7    YIKES!
    written by keyricster since 78 days 4 hours 9 minuteskeyricster
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