Verizon Direct Marketing [telecom]

[David LaRue]

I received an email from Verizon about my FIOS account. It stated that
they are now direct marketing with non-personal data, including my home
address. There was an opt out link that didn't work. Presumably this
affects web ads though it was not spsecifically stated.

[Bill Horne]

On 5/17/2013 7:11 AM, David LaRue wrote:
> I received an email from Verizon about my FIOS account. It stated that
> they are now direct marketing with non-personal data, including my home
> address.

If your home address isn't personal, I wonder what Verizon thinks *is*?

> There was an opt out link that didn't work. Presumably this affects
> web ads though it was not spsecifically stated.

This affects every ad that Ma Bell delivers on behalf of those who pay
the old whore to bypass your bypassing software. The marketeers are
reaching for your lizard brain, seeking the perfect combination of shame
and guilt and superstition that will get your wallet open and transform
it into a pipe from your employer to all the companies that want to sell
you back your fear.

I know this, because when I tried to find "my" webpage on the
verizon.net site to confirm that "my" webpage is still only available
via a hard-to-find, hard-to-use, complicated series of conflicting
instructions, I wound up at the verizon.net splash page.

The screen lit up with a picture of a child reaching toward the
camera, containing text that said "*Your* Internet ... (something)",
and then it flashed (pun intended) to another picture of a
large-breasted woman with text that said "Don't wait until *you* get
home ... ", and then to another picture that showed a male adult
pointing to an electronic tablet while holding a pigtailed child
dressed in a pink garment, with text that said "*Master* your services
...". (Emphasis added)

Verizon doesn't want you to have a web page. They want you to have an
electronic orgasm while buying more and more useless shite from
everyone who pays them. Face the Telescreen, Comrade!

YMMV. HAND. HTH.

Bill

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Bill Horne
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