The FCC needs to make clear to carriers that it can’t...
The FCC needs to make clear to carriers that it can’t prevent subscribers from making political contributions via text message, as recently permitted by the Federal Election Commission, said Michael Weinberg, vice president of Public Knowledge’s Institute for Emerging Innovation.…
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Weinberg commented on reports that to date none of the major national carriers allow the practice. “Carriers should not have the power to drag their feet and prevent people from donating to political campaigns,” he said. “For five years we have been demanding that the FCC make it clear that carriers do not get to decide what consumers can and cannot do with text messaging. … The FCC continues to ignore the fact that text messaging exists and is used billions of times each year. It is well past time that the FCC make it clear that consumers -- not carriers -- get to choose what they do with text messaging."