The New York Times reported late yesterday and in today's editions that the powerful telecommunications monopoly Verizon had last week blocked political text messages from NARAL Pro-Choice America. As of 10:30 AM, the Times is now reporting that Verizon Reverses Itself on Abortion Rights Messages. Verizon only "reversed course" after a fierce groundswell of opposition to its arrogant abuse of its many promises that it would abide by net neutrality (and its lobbying campaign that federal action to preserve Internet freedom or net neutrality was unnecessary). Here's Tim Karr of savetheinternet.com's blog entry at Huffington Post. This sorry episode of corporate abuse of power does not demonstrate that the market works; it demonstrates that the government needs to clearly assert net neutrality non-discrimination rules, so companies like Verizon can't pick and choose when they won't discriminate, based on how much heat they take in the press.