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Senator Nelson Pursues Spammers Via RICO Act

Posted by timothy on from the new-tack dept.

JCMay writes "Democrat Bill Nelson of Florida has introduced legislation to the United States Senate that would expand the RICO act to include spammers that forge email addresses and do not provide mechanisms by which recipients can opt-out of future mailings."

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  1. Re:Not more of this... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Informative
    I hate RICO too, but I'd like to point out that the courts gave the anti-abortion protesters an out. I don't really understand why after they let so many other RICO abuses stand.

    The point in jamming spam under RICO is you can take all the property and money they have and the spammers has to prove it was made legally. Personally I don't think even spammers deserve that.

  2. Re:Not more of this... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Informative
    You're completely missing my point. Of course anyone shooting up abortion clinics should be locked up, and of course laws against hookers and drug dealers should be enforced.

    My objection is to charging them under an unrelated law that is supposed to deal with the Mafia, because it reduces the burden of proof and makes it easier to impose punitive seizures.