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Controversies
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Verizon_Communications
Verizon has been involved in several public controversies.
Tax dodging and lobbying
In December 2011,
the non-partisan organization Public Campaign criticized Verizon for
spending $52.34 million on lobbying and
not paying any taxes during 2008-2010, instead getting $951 million in tax rebates, despite making a profit of $32.5 billion, having laid off 21,308 workers since 2008 and increasing executive pay by 167% to $20.3 million in 2010 for its top 5 executives.
However, on February 24, 2012, in its Form 10-K filed with the SEC, Verizon reported having paid more than $11.1 billion in taxes (including incóme, employment and property taxes) in 2009-2011. In addition, the company reported in the 10-K that most of the drop in employment since 2008 was due to a voluntary retirement offer.
Political
On December 22, 2004, mail servers at Verizon.net were configured not to accept connections from Europe, by default, in an attempt to reduce spam email. Individual domains would only be unblocked upon request.
On May 11, 2006, controversy arose when
USA Today revealed that Verizon, along with AT&T Inc. and BellSouth, had turned over the call records of millions of U.S. citizens to the Natíonal Security Agency.
Verizon flatly denied turning over records to the government, but did not comment on whether MCI, which it had acquired in January, had done so. On October 12, 2007,
the company admitted in a letter to the United States House Committee on Energy and Commerce that it had turned over customer information to the FBI and other federal agencies of the U.S. government approximately 94,000 times from January 2005 to September 2007, providing such information 720 times without being presented with a court order or warrant.
In September 2007, Verizon Wireless initially refused to make their mobile phone network available to NARAL Pro-Choice America for a program which allows people to sign up for pro-choice text messages, on the grounds that they had the right to block "controversial or unsavory" messages. They subsequently reversed the decision:
[list][list]"It was an incorrect interpretation of a dusty internal policy, that ... was designed to ward against communications such as anonymous hate messaging and adult materíals sent to children. ... [Verizon has] great respect for this free flow of ideas."
Internet
On February 4, 2010, 4chan started receiving reports from Verizon Wireless customers that they were having difficulties accessing the site's image boards. 4chan administrators found that only traffic on port 80 to the boards.4chan.org domain was affected, leading them to believe that the block was intentional. On February 7, 2010, Verizon Wireless confirmed that 4chan.org was "explicitly blocked".
In August 2010, the
chairmen of Verizon and Google agreed that Network Neutrality should be defined and limited.
In December 2010 Verizon continued moderating its network by removing access to some IRC servers related to Wikileaks "Operation Payback".
2011 union worker strikes
In August 2011, 45,000 Verizon workers went on strike for two weeks over management efforts to reduce their benefits.
Management was asking union workers to accept a freeze in pension contributions concurrent with a switch to a 401K plan used by other non-union Verizon workers.
Other changes disputed by the unions included making contributions to health insurance premiums. In October 2011 the workers' union, the Communications Workers of America, joined the Occupy Wall Street to protest the benefit cuts after Verizon announced its profits had doubled from the previous quarter.
FCC Ruling Appeal
At the end of September 2011, Verizon Communication appealed the FCC’s ruling regarding net neutrality.
DNS Redirection
Verizon turns on DNS redirection option for its paying broadband customers by default. When customers accidentally type and enter a non-existent Web address they are redirected to the Verizon search screen. Verizon calls this option "Domain Assistance" and gives customers instructions on how to disable it.
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