“Throw the Book at Them” or “San Fran Ban”

http://content.usatoday.com/communities/greenhouse/post/2011/05/san-francisco-bans-yellow-pages-/1

San Francisco is banning the delivery of Yellow Pages unless they are requested by consumers.  The ban could hurt local businesses advertise in the books, the phone company who collects revenue from those ads, and most of all, little people who need the phone book to sit on at the table.

People who want to order a phone book can call, but good luck looking up the number.

The residential listings, or White Pages, will still be delivered to everyone.  This decision was immediately cited as racist.

The group happiest to see the phone books done away with?  Trees.

Opponents of the phone book reduction will probably quiet down as soon as they hear about the invention of the Internet.