Screaming Penguin - Source Does Matter

If this is in court already, then that's where it should be fixed. AT&T/Cingular still should not be allowed to block phone numbers that are currently legal, because then what is to stop them from blocking other legal numbers for essentially arbitrary reasons?

This speaks directly to the Net Neutrality issue, because wireless services will increasingly play the role of ISP moving forward, and wireless service is not well regulated for common carriage the way land lines are, and they way broadband services were up until 2005 when the Supreme Court upheld the FCC's jurisdiction to decide to classify broadband as an "information service" rather than a "telecommunications service" -- what poppycock.

Regardless of how others have misbehaved, nothing should give Cingular the right to make their own unilateral cowboy justice here. That's a terrible precedent, and one that needs to be pushed back hard.

Capitalism running wild has even more potential for authoritarianism than socialism, because it's even less accountable to the collective public interest.