California Bans Mobile Phone Spam

Argyle writes "News.com is reporting that California has banned the spamming of pagers and mobile phones with unwanted text messages."

Comments

Re:California Laws

[fmaxwell]

Here is another example of well-meaning, yet relatively irrelevant laws being passed.

I disagree. This is a valuable, pro-active attempt to keep Californians from being forced to pay for spam sent to their cell phones and pagers.

Remember that, unlike the Internet, there are long-distance charges to call cell phones from out of area. Since spammers are bottom feeders that look for ways to pay nothing for their advertising, the vast majority of the spam would come from in-state. Thus, there would be no question of jurisdiction, extradition, etc. in most cases.