A Bounty on Spammers (CIO Insight)

A Bounty on Spammers (CIO Insight)

Posted Oct 1, 2002 17:19 UTC (Tue) by gswoods (guest, #37)
In reply to: A Bounty on Spammers (CIO Insight) by steve
Parent article: A Bounty on Spammers (CIO Insight)

I think a lot of the radical anti-spammers are also using short-term
thinking. I hate spam as much as anyone, but I fear government attempts
to control what we can do with our machines and our network much more
than I do spam. Spam can be controlled by technological means. When everybody
is running SpamAssassin, Bogofilter, etc., spam won't be effective any more,
and therefore won't be profitable any more. On the other hand, politicians
have a long and bloody history of abusing their power. Pass anti-spam laws,
and you can bet that, sooner or later, they will be used for purposes other
than suppressing spam. Purposes that, most likely, will further inhibit
our freedom.

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