Fang-Face writes “Here’s a story about something we all love to hate and that has nothing whatever to do with politics.
2 found guilty in nation’s 1st felony spam conviction
There’s the usual outraged, freedom of speech defense, but I don’t think it’ll fly since the law specifically targets spammers who mask the originating address of their spam. Since it’s a groundbreaking case, however, it’s a safe bet the U.S. Supreme Court will be hearing this one. The question in this case, as I see it, is: can someone who is emitting commercial speech hide behind anonymity the way you can for political speech?
So, what’s in your library inbox?”
Spam, spam, spam, spam, spam, & eggs
I’m only a one-eyed meteorologist (and legal opinions can be safely ignored), but it seems to me that Spammmers claiming that free speech protections should preserve their anonymnity ignores the obvious: if they’re selling something, they should want to be found. How long can a store survive without telling customers how to get to the product?
Re:Spam, spam, spam, spam, spam, & eggs
The way I understand it is that the spammers are third parties directing a message/advert of a product between the makers or sellers of said product and you. The content of the message tells you how and where to get the generic V1@gRa.