Lessig, label-or-pay anti-spam, and "substantially reduce"
Further on Lessig's advocacy of a label-or-pay anti-spam proposal, I don't find the bet about "substantially reduce the level of spam" all that interesting.
Let's say that the "Label-Else-Spam-Stops-Immediately-Gimmick Law" kills 30% of the spam. This would be great. Phenomenal. A work of genius from simplicity.
Then what do we do about the remaining 70%?
Note, if it kills 30%, the fact that 30% is not 100%, isn't a reason to reject it. Anything helps.
I'm for it. Pragmatically, the labeling system seems more a legal-fiction way of having a de facto spam ban, rather than, in practice, an end in and of itself.
But we've still got a problem with spam, in what do we do NOW?
By Seth Finkelstein |
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on January 09, 2003 03:00 AM
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