on 5/26/2003 3:58 PM Dean Anderson wrote:
You have yet to find any compelling grounds on which to limit real
commercial speech, and yet to even demonstrate any harms of real
commercial speech.
Spam on my measured-rate cellular-data PDA is real cost. Spam on my
measured-rate ISDN line (California) is real cost. Extra staffing to
counteract spam at my [isp|university|business] is real cost (setting
aside other costs that you seem willing to ignore). There are plenty of
examples to pick from.
These are abnormal expenses which go directly into maintaining the
usefulness of my property and which do not increase its value. The right
to commercial speech would not warrant these costs for any other venue,
and there is nothing sufficiently different and unique about this venue to
warrant it here.
You are certainly entitled to the opposite opinion but the existence of
previous laws for protection in other venues is evidence against you.
Perhaps you can provide an example of a law that acts as evidence in favor
of your opinion so we can see how this balances out.
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