Australian Considers Outlawing Spam

Posted by michael on Tuesday April 15, 2003 @11:43PM from the get-medieval dept.

An anonymous reader writes "The Sydney Morning Herald has an article on spam down under. I guess it goes to show that if something that bothers us also bothers enough politicians then something may be done. Interestingly, the article discusses international co-operation wrt spam. Good thing too. With only 2% of the global economy, it'll take more than Australia to beat the spam problem. Perhaps someone should send a 'group letter' to all relevant politicians in various countries to start co-operating? :)" Update: 04/16 11:56 GMT by H : There's another article on the subject as well, running in The Australian.

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Re:How would this international cooperation work? by squaretorus · 2003-04-15 23:56 · Score: 5, Informative

Yes. It depends on the law, but yes.

There are UK laws specifically making UK citizens who commit criminal acts abroad responsible under UK law. i.e. enjoy dodgy recreational pursuits while on holiday, come back and go to jail.

That you are actually committing the crime against another country while IN your own country certainly puts you under your local jurisdiction.

This law would protect the world from Aussie spam more than it would protect Australia from the worlds spam!