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FTC Tries to Can Sex Spam

Posted by michael on from the closing-the-barn-door dept.

F_SMASH writes "The United States' Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has charged a group of companies and individuals with failing to include required warnings on 'sex' related spam e-mail."

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  1. Offshore? by grub · · Score: 4, Interesting


    One of the companies, Global Net Ventures, is based in the UK. How is the US FTC going to charge them?

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    1. Re:Offshore? by Average_Joe_Sixpack · · Score: 4, Interesting

      One of the companies, Global Net Ventures, is based in the UK. How is the US FTC going to charge them?

      Little things like borders have never stopped US authorities before

    2. Re:Offshore? by Perl-Pusher · · Score: 2, Interesting

      It's not really about a fundamentalist base. Many people especially the 1/2 of the population that are women are disgusted with all the crap clogging their inbox. Until recently my company was getting very graphical images. The women in our employ made it clear they wanted it stopped. The answer was a combination of blacklists, spamassassin, blocking entire countries (Thailand, china etc.) ip blocks. We do local and national business. Anything from asia went to the postmaster account for review. After about 3-4 months the emails changed from porn to drugs from Canada and b.s. mortgage offers. The spam filters in thunderbird handles them fairly well.

  2. The FTC going after spamers is like someone by thesonicboom · · Score: 4, Interesting

    putting their finger in the leak in the dike. The Internet is much bigger than one nation. The solution is going to have to be technological, not regulatory.

  3. Go Feds! by jmorris42 · · Score: 3, Interesting

    I know it is standard procedure to ridicule anything the present administration does, but going after ANY spammers is OK in my book. And going after the worst of the porn spammers is even better. Hell, I'l a geek and have been known to look at that stuff but these days I feel like I need a bath after I work through my inbox.... and that is after spamassassin has had first crack at it.

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  4. Re:Hmm... by AceCaseOR · · Score: 2, Interesting
    Ehhh... No. More likely there'd be serious free speech issues involved with banning spam entirely. I sincerely doubt that the companies that employ spammmers, especially porn spammers, make enough money to make it worth their while to buy a congressman. If they did, there'd have been a lot more resistance in congress to the FCC's crackdown on offencive conduct after the "Wardrobe Malfunction".

    You might want to loosen your tinfoil hat some.

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