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Spam Under Legislative Attack in Europe
Anonymous Coward writes: "CNN has an article in their Science and Technology section detailing how the European telecommunication ministers have agreed that unsolicited e-mail and wireless text messages should be prohibited under a new data protection law. They also are agreeing to allow leeway for law enforcement to access logs of e-mail and telephone traffic.
Word games.
"allow people to stop receiving information". Hmmm. Shut off your radio if you don't want to "receive". How about, "prohibit people from sending information". Much different, isn't it? How would spam be defined? What if other things like petitions get lumped in with spam?
Damn, I paid for my radio and electricity, and all these damn stations keep sending me unsolicited information.
This may all sound like a troll, but it's not. The metaphors used in associating with email seem to break down when you get into the details.
If you want to live in a free society, you will have to "receive" the good with the bad.
LS
There is a fine line between being a cultivated citizen and being someone else's crop. - A. J. Patrick Liszkie