Previous Politech message: http://www.politechbot.com/p-04355.html --- From: "dan tynan" <danat_private> To: <declanat_private> References: <5.1.1.6.0.20030123015541.026e7c38at_private> Subject: Re: Will Larry Lessig's proposed anti-spam law make spam... worse? Date: Thu, 23 Jan 2003 11:45:26 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal declan: I just read this thread and I have a favor to ask of you. I've spent much of the past year researching and writing articles about spam (for cnet and pcworld, primarily) but I do not for the life of me understand the "anti-spam laws impede free speech" argument. spam is advertising, pure and simple. just as advertisers don't have an intrinsic right to advertise in a magazine or on TV (they have to 1) be able to pay for the space, and 2) meet the magazine or tv station's standards for acceptable content), they don't have an inherent right to advertise in my inbox. where exactly is the free speech violation? could you post my question to your list so one of your smart readers can tell me what I'm missing? thanks. daniel tynan contributing editor, pc world inside @cess, cnet danat_private ------------------------------------------------------------------------- POLITECH -- Declan McCullagh's politics and technology mailing list You may redistribute this message freely if you include this notice. To subscribe to Politech: http://www.politechbot.com/info/subscribe.html This message is archived at http://www.politechbot.com/ Declan McCullagh's photographs are at http://www.mccullagh.org/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Like Politech? Make a donation here: http://www.politechbot.com/donate/ Recent CNET News.com articles: http://news.search.com/search?q=declan -------------------------------------------------------------------------
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