Seriously, Comic Book Evil

I have had many telephone companies over the years. I’ve jumped from provider to provider because of the shoddy customer service, the price gouging, the terrible service, and other grievances.

These gripes I can understand in a Conservative Free-Market economy – one should expect that without government regulation, shitty corporations in bed with Republicans conspire to screw people over. Not a big surprise to anyone who knows the first thing about Pre-New Deal American history.

But now I’m steaming over criminal grievances. Yes, criminal grievances. Here is what the lawyer of a good telecom had to say about it:

“Hi there – Working Assets’ lawyer here to chime in. Phone companies are, by law, required to keep phone records and conversations private. Unless a court has issued a subpoena for your records, no governmental agency should be able to find out what numbers you’re dialing, or who is calling you – and they should not be allowed to listen to your phone calls.

Any phone company that just rolled over and let the NSA snoop into our phone records and conversations acted illegally, and undermined our basic Constitutional rights. That’s why Working Assets participated in an ACLU lawsuit against the NSA – while some of our competitors turned over records without demanding the subpoenas required by law.”