[SpamCop-List] Re: Political spam -- a first for me

[D.F. Manno]

In article <c0tk7i$5tp$1 at news.spamcop.net>,
 "Miss Betsy" <nobody at spamcop.net> wrote:

> The government can certainly make it easy for ISP's to protect their
> customers by setting standards (even if government doesn't enforce
> them).  I don't have to give "equal" time to all political views by
> subscribing to their newspapers or magazines.

And the government can't ban those newspapers or magazines because you 
don't want to read them.

> I shouldn't have to
> give "equal" time to any online newsletter and I should be able to
> hire an email service that will protect my inbox from unwanted
> intrusion by any bulk email regardless of content.

Yes, you can. You just can't have the government act to keep political 
e-mail out of your inbox.

> Offline, the
> government can make and do enforce such laws (just as they do with
> junk faxes and telemarketer calls).

And as I've said repeatedly, that's commercial speech, which the 
government can regulate.
-- 
D.F. Manno
dommanno at netscape.net
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