{"id":227566,"date":"2010-01-25T06:50:47","date_gmt":"2010-01-25T11:50:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/techdirt.com\/articles\/20100122\/0419467870.shtml"},"modified":"2010-01-25T06:50:47","modified_gmt":"2010-01-25T11:50:47","slug":"so-is-verizon-cutting-users-off-or-not","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/227566","title":{"rendered":"So Is Verizon Cutting Users Off Or Not?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well, well, well.  A few days ago, News.com had a story that got a lot of attention saying that Verizon was <a href=\"http:\/\/news.cnet.com\/8301-1023_3-10437176-93.html?tag=newsLeadStoriesArea.1\" >kicking users off of its service<\/a> after it had received accusations of file sharing.  At the time, we <a href=\"http:\/\/www.techdirt.com\/articles\/20100120\/1225577837.shtml\">wondered<\/a> if this was a misstatement by a Verizon spokesperson, and in an update, Verizon insisted that News.com had misquoted its spokesperson, and it <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dslreports.com\/shownews\/Verizon-Is-NOT-Booting-P2P-Users-Off-Of-Network-106529?nocomment=1\" ><i>had not<\/i> kicked anyone off<\/a>.  And yet, lots of folks are still reporting that Verizon is kicking users off for file sharing.  And, now, News.com has come back and <a href=\"http:\/\/news.cnet.com\/8301-31001_3-10439144-261.html?tag=newsLatestHeadlinesArea.0\" >stands by its original story<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Reading through the details, what it <i>appears<\/i> to have happened was that a Verizon person misspoke, and News.com accurately reported the misstatement (suggesting that users had been kicked off).  Verizon is still claiming it &#8220;reserves the right&#8221; to kick users off, but has not actually done so.  Hopefully it realizes that doing so based solely on accusation is a huge mistake and one over which it would almost certainly face serious backlash.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/techdirt.com\/articles\/20100122\/0419467870.shtml\">Permalink<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/techdirt.com\/articles\/20100122\/0419467870.shtml#comments\">Comments<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/techdirt.com\/article.php?sid=20100122\/0419467870&#038;op=sharethis\">Email This Story<\/a><br \/>\n <br clear=\"both\" style=\"clear: both;\"\/><br \/>\n<br clear=\"both\" style=\"clear: both;\"\/><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/ads.pheedo.com\/click.phdo?s=d0a48cb74f1e3f30298e66fb4f35aa7f&#038;p=1\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" style=\"border: 0;\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/ads.pheedo.com\/img.phdo?s=d0a48cb74f1e3f30298e66fb4f35aa7f&#038;p=1\"\/><\/a><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" height=\"0\" width=\"0\" border=\"0\" style=\"display:none\" src=\"http:\/\/a.rfihub.com\/eus.gif?eui=2225\"\/><\/p>\n<div class=\"feedflare\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.techdirt.com\/~ff\/techdirt\/feed?a=LWFeHBswLDU:IcEMFmcjXN4:D7DqB2pKExk\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/techdirt\/feed?i=LWFeHBswLDU:IcEMFmcjXN4:D7DqB2pKExk\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.techdirt.com\/~ff\/techdirt\/feed?a=LWFeHBswLDU:IcEMFmcjXN4:c-S6u7MTCTE\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/techdirt\/feed?d=c-S6u7MTCTE\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a>\n<\/div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/techdirt\/feed\/~4\/LWFeHBswLDU\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well, well, well. A few days ago, News.com had a story that got a lot of attention saying that Verizon was kicking users off of its service after it had received accusations of file sharing. At the time, we wondered if this was a misstatement by a Verizon spokesperson, and in an update, Verizon insisted [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-227566","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227566","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=227566"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227566\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=227566"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=227566"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=227566"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}