The senate is interested in regulating Spam. How long before the SPAM trade association has a sentor-for-hire in their back pocket? Let's see...SPAM = Free Speech? Tick Tock.
The Senate agreed Wednesday to impose tough new limits on the irritating but lucrative business of e-mailing unwanted sales pitches to millions of people in the United States.
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The Bush administration supports the bill, although similar legislation has stalled in the House. Sens. John Edwards, D-N.C., John Kerry, D-Mass., and Daniel Inouye, D-Hawaii, missed the vote.
"Kingpin spammers who send out e-mail by the millions are threatening to drown the Internet in a sea of trash, and the American people want it stopped," Wyden said. Acknowledging problems with e-mails originating overseas, he urged other countries to approve similar limits.
Seems they found Delay's price already...
"Kingpin Spammers"? Of course, silly me, we just hunt down all the Pablo Escobars of SPAM and lock'em up! So really simple...except don't most of them live off-shore? Hope they like GITMO. Sic'em Snake-Handler...they might be advertising Bongs!
posted by Jo Fish on 10.22.03 at 10:46 PM
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according to a recent article in the NY Times, most spammers live in a section of Boca Roton, Florida, known as spam beach.
posted by: 56k on 10.23.03 at 06:51 PM [permalink]
Regulation may not be a good thing, but I think SPAM is worse.
So, the question is: would you rather trade away your privacy to spammers or the gov....or rather, more of your privacy, that is.
