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Inappropriate Spam Reaching Children?
peeweejd writes "Wired has an article stating that four out of five children receive inappropriate spam e-mail touting get-rich-quick schemes, and almost half receive spam linking to pornographic materials. Should spammers be held responsible for the spams they send out? Can someone sue a spammer for offering to sell 'adult only' items/services to children?" There are more details from survey originator Symantec's press release - and yes, Symantec does sell mail filtering software.
Are you one of those go getters?!
Just imagine if you had started enlarging your penis at age 6.
I wondered why my 6-year-old was refinancing his mortgage.
Your paranoia is about as subtle as the alien probe in your neck.
Perhaps a small streaming camwhore site could lead to the big time later!
I know I don't want to be the one to deny the next Jenna or Kobi.
Follow that dream, Billy!
Any teenagers in that half were so, so lying.
The coolest voice ever.
When I was a kid I wanted porn spam...
I've been a proud surfer of internet pr0n since the 5th grade.(college freshman now)
"win a Playstation,"
"meet singles online,"
"lose 15 pounds in two days,"
"buy herbal Viagra online,"
Damn, they're that coherent? Mine don't make nearly make that much sense. Why, here's a sampling of subject lines straight from my Hotmail inbox:
"hard vertilde suvereniteetti"
"Att: a gargantuan thing ffx"
"Ssrt life skillss rrewaarrdded - whhy waiit"
"embrafeable stronlhold"
"Kimberly said you"
"bending moment"
"pebble ruimnaalden orrella nnthayer"
"How is it applied?"
"varnish-treated"
I don't know what an embrafeable stronlhold is, but I know I've always wanted one. Varnish-treated.
The coolest voice ever.
Might as well post this link since you thing porn is inoffensive goatse.cx
The only place his email address is posted is on his web page. His birthdate is on the same page, so it is obvious he not even two years old yet.
He already receives spam for credit cards, porn, penis enlargers, etc.
I would love to sue these spammers, if only for the time I spend keeping my son's mailbox clean of this junk.
Edward Burr
Having a smoking section in a restaurant is like having a peeing section in a swimming pool.
ah, but how? maybe like the evil bit RFC we can implement a pr0n bit that can be reliably used by filtering software keep pr0n available where it's badly needed and far away from those who shouldn't know about people's parts and how they fit together.
closed minded is as closed minded does
Should spammers be held responsible for the spams they send out?
s/'be held responsible for'/'be made to print out and eat'Riaa.com
Just tell him he gets a free one when he hits puberty and doesn't need to buy one.
What about this one, "Daddy, why do girls suck on guys dicks?"
Because their property isn't zoned for horses.
If your child is too young to be viewing pornographic material and you provide them with their own unsupervised e-mail address, you should be held liable by state law.
Right. And if a 747 crashes into my house, the airline should sue me for building on THEIR flight path.
In Soviet Russia, sig types you!
It doesn't matter that you didn't know that girl was only 15, you're going to jail for statutory rape. (You may have an out if she *said* she was 19, but that's acting in good faith, not ignorance).
Whew. Good thing the age of consent is 14 in my country.
It's like going to a playground and pushing viagra, drugs, porno and taking their lunch money while saying you'll be right back with a 100$ loan for them. Or if an old man came on the playground and started talking to your 10 year old kid about enlarging his penis, would you really have a problem with that?
Joking aside, I dont see spamming kids with this info as being much different than asking them verbally.
Outdoor digital photography, mostly in New Engl
I dunno. Might be one way to discourage little Brittany from getting that pony she's been wanting.
:)
As a collector of pr0n, I'll trade you two "shaved curious cheerleaders", a "hidden shower cams" and a complete set of "World's largest gangbang" messages for that one.
-- I wanna decide who lives and who dies - Crow T. Robot, MST3K
From the article:
"Four out of five children receive inappropriate spam e-mail touting get-rich-quick schemes, and almost half receive spam linking to pornographic materials."
This only tells me that one out of five children do not have an e-mail account, and that nearly half of all children are able to use spamassassin much better than I can.
My next sig will be ready soon, but friends can beat the rush!
As a male, Ive been recieveing "enlarge your breasts now" spam for quite some time...
and damnit, Ive been on a diet to reduce them!
Thanks to file sharing, I purchase more CDs
Thanks to the RIAA, I buy them used...
all the school will do is give the jerk a slap on the risk.
That is much, much worse than a slap on the Stratego.
When I was under 18, I had to scour usenet late at night to get my porn. In the snow. Uphill each way!
Now kids get it delivered to their email box for nothing????
How DARE you parent your child without the Government's permission and/or blessing.
And doing a much better job than the Government, too. * tsk tsk tsk *
Have you no sense of propriety, you AC?
Mod Karma -1: I sed bad wurds. If I cep my mouf shut, I wud be at riyses.
...what with their embrafeable stronlholds and their vertilde suvereniteettis and their ruimnaalden orrella nnthayers. The Welsh are the single greatest threat to human language and they MUST be stopped before it's too late! Heed my warning or the human race will be doomed to saying LLANFAIR for all eternity!
Fucking awesome. Option 2. Definitely. If it means even 12 months of spam-free bliss before the world comes crumbling down around us, then I'm all for it.
this would be easier to explain if I had a boy
;)
Or if you were married to a man
Hell when I was a kid I thought I was lucky to have an Etch-a-sketch.
They don't need a computer, they need an asswhipping and then go outside for some fresh air and exercise instead of sitting indoors and getting fat. What ever happened to reading a book?
Kids today have it too easy, what with their pokemon, gameboy, PS2, DVD, razor scooters, fancy computers then next thing you know they are teenagers with honda civic and putting ass-clown wings on the back.
I am a reasonably well adjusted ADULT and I haven't been the same since I saw goatce.cx ... still cant rid of those twitches...
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