People Becoming Resigned To Spam
from the broken-wills dept
Some new studies about spam suggest that there's a bit of anti-spam backlash going on. First, fewer people now say spam is "very annoying". The folks behind the study say that this suggests people are (a) using better tools to fight spam and (b) becoming resigned to the idea that spam is just a fact of life, like bad traffic. Still, more people are hoping that spam is declared illegal. In another study, a company found that the media has been overhyping (what a surprise) the amount of spam that is pornographic. The media often puts the number at 60 to 80%, when the actual number is closer to 20%.
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Depends on how people feel about the viagra spams
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Where's the consistency?
I'm not in favor of zealous government persecution in either case; some copyright theft will occur and some spam will happen, and our government law enforcement should recognize it has better things to do, like investigating and preventing assault, battery, murder, kidnapping, and other hard crimes.
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Re: Where's the consistency?
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Re: Where's the consistency?
It's not a question of "more legislation" or "less legislation" than "Where do we want legislation to be judiciously used?"
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