Anti-Spam Bill Killed In California

Craig Newmark (craigslist) writes "In California, we had a pretty good antispam bill proposed by Sen. Debra Bowen, which was killed yesterday. A pro-spammer bill, backed by the big media sites including Microsoft, passed through committee. Here's a quick round up. We're considering a big feedback campaign, based on conversation with staffers on what works for them, since they want to hear from constituents, as opposed to spam. More to come ..."

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Yeah, more slashbot FUD

[stratjakt]

The bill that passed wasnt a pro-spam bill. It was a different anti-spam bill.

An anti-spam bill passed, just not that idiotic one that you wanted - you know, the one that would have clogged the legal system with every leech in the universe suing for 500 bucks for every e-mail they recieve.

Crappy Government

[AstroDrabb]

Damn our US government sucks. This is so typical. Whenever there is possible legislation that would actually benefit the poeople, there are some dirty lobbiest to hand out money and even dirtier politicians to collect it.

Will the US government ever wake up? Will the politicians stop their corruption? What steps do we need to take to restore our deomocracy so that it is not run by big corporate America and all their paid for votes from their paid for politicians?

I think We the People need to think about using our constitutional rights to use force and bear arms against the government to restructure it to a functioning body again. OK, who is with me?