A news radio station in New York reports that the broadband and telecommunications company Verizon is now scanning customer email.

If email contains a hyperlink to a website, the email is rejected and not sent to the recipient, according to 95.1 FM in New York City.

After a customer complained about the policy the corporation told him there isn't a way to op-put of the program.

"Verizon scans the digital signatures of all inbound and outbound email messages to reduce the overall volume of spam on our network" and all email containing a hyperlink will be considered spam.

"So if a business person needs to get information to a colleague, or a student needs to get research to a fellow student, or if a wife wants to share an interesting recipe with a friend . . .  all those emails will be rejected by Verizon!" the radio station website explains.

In October Matt Drudge told the Alex Jones Show the very foundation of the free internet is under severe threat from copyright laws that could ban independent media outlets. Drudge said he was told directly by a Supreme Court Justice, "It's over for me."