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Sued ?!?

Posted Sep 13, 2002 10:16 UTC (Fri) by job (subscriber, #670)
In reply to: Idea for increasing effectiveness by gswoods
Parent article: Spam avoidance techniques

It sounds like the problem is that you don't live in a free country, rather than being a problem with content filtering.

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Posted Sep 13, 2002 16:36 UTC (Fri) by gswoods (subscriber, #37) [Link]

Yeah, right. And just where is this 'free' country?

US law has lots of problems, but so does anyplace else.

Besides, this is a gratuitous anti-American comment. There's no need for
that here. We all have valid reasons for living where we do. I think it
would be stupid to move to another country just so that I could be free
to filter content for an entire organization. And it's just as easy to
argue that content filtering restricts the freedom of employees to use
the Internet. I'm not saying I agree with that argument, but you have to
be very careful when glibly tossing around the word 'free'.

Lastly, content filtering is not illegal even here. It's just that if you
filter, then you're responsible for what gets through your filters.
Personally, I would agree that's silly, but that's what the courts have ruled.

Sued ?!?

Posted Sep 19, 2002 11:08 UTC (Thu) by job (subscriber, #670) [Link]

Oh, I have no idea you lived in the US. It was not an anti-American comment at all, just pro-free society, no matter where on Earth it may be. Don't take it personally.