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[Asrg] Re: Spam laws

2004-03-10 12:38:29
It's a pity the US legislature has again, as it so often does, chosen a
model that supports the providers of campaign funds instead of a model that
protects the ordinary Joe. Maybe we can get can-spam canned and siome
sensible legislation in its place (adopting the EU directive might be a good

Getting probably off-topic into the "politics of spam" - what about all the porm spam out there?

That should certainly fall under almost any indecency standard I can imagine - and it shouldn't be too hard to write some indecency law that would trap them, never even get *near* the "artistic soft-porn" side of things.. And probably get around first-ammendment problems too (what exactly is the Free Speech value of showing explicitly naked breasts, clitorii (Latin plural correct?) and penises, in various configurations, pray tell me?) An in the EU, one might not have the save "high bar" of protection as the First Ammendment in the US - I don't know how much EU laws on speech protect.

Jim Witte
jswitte(_at_)bloomington(_dot_)in(_dot_)us
Indiana University CS


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