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FTC Recommends Bounty on Spammers

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the pay-to-play dept.

joke-boy writes "AP reports that as part of the CANSPAM legislation, the FTC has issued a report recommending placing taxpayer-funded 6-figure bounties on spammers, much like the bounties placed on the FBI's Ten Most Wanted."

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  1. that's hardly fair to the taxpayers by CAIMLAS · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Why make the taxpayers pay for cleaning up the internet of spam?

    Make the spammers pay out the bounty. There's absolutely no reason to make taxpayers (you know, citizens) suffer and go further in debt (via the nation) for the crimes to humanity that spammers have perpetrated.

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