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Top Web Businesses Oppose Utah Spyware Law

Posted by simoniker on from the online-petitions dept.

theodp writes "According to MediaPost.com: 'Some of the Web's leading content and technology providers have taken action to lobby against Utah's controversial Spyware Control Act, which is awaiting the governor's signature. Web publishers and businesses including AOL, Amazon, Cnet, eBay, Google, Microsoft, and Yahoo! signed a letter to the bill's sponsors arguing that the bill could create serious repercussions for the entire online community. The parties to the letter warned that the bill could interfere with computer security and would also impair the delivery of local, targeted ads'."

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  1. Re:Politicians and technology, again. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    At first I read your post and thought, why is he opposed to big corporations? He must be a knee-jerk liberal.

  2. /. TROLLS ARE ON TEH SPOKE by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Nuff said.

  3. I killed a dot-com just to watch it die. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    No, I'm just a big-game hunter. The bigger the beast is, the more satisfying it is to kill it dead.

  4. Re:If you think that... by Miriku+chan · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Why are the people who call Bush a dictator the same ones who want to take away our guns?

    um, cause we dont think rednecks like you should be given sharp objects, much less guns?

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    shaolin punk, activist post-industrial