Lawmakers Try to Protect Kids From Spam

Carl Bialik from the WSJ writes "Some states have moved to shield children from email peddling porn, alcohol and other adults-only products, the Wall Street Journal reports. Critics say the laws, which establish a registry of kids' email addresses, are unfair to marketers and could create security risks. The debate echoes earlier discussion about a proposed do-not-spam national registry that the Can-Spam Law urged, but which the FTC nixed. This time, though, the registries are moving forward on a state-by-state basis, and facing court challenges from the adult entertainment industry." From the article: "Few email addresses have been placed on the state registries so far. Earlier this week, Utah's registry had 1,992 addresses, and 62 schools had registered their domain names to block emails to student accounts. About 160 companies had submitted their email lists for screening. In Michigan, 3,658 email addresses have been registered, along with 41 school domains. About 170 marketers had applied for screening."

Comments

Realism isn't your strong suit

[flyinwhitey]

"Oh please, like some parent stands a chance against all those marketers sloshing their emails, and their kids email boxes full of porn and other adult-only products. Come on let us be realistic..."

Ok, no unsupervised email access or television.

I've just eliminated 90% (it's a guess, fuck you if you don't like it) of the undesired marketing.

YOU need to be more realistic, and stop foisting the EASY part of parenting onto others.

I will not raise your kid, and I will not pay for others to do so. If you make me, I will sabotage the effort at every turn, and campaign as vigorously as I can against it at every opportunity.

The point is, if you genuinely think you can't control what your kid sees well enough, DON'T BE A FUCKING PARENT.

You just made excuses (lame ones) for all the shitty parents out there. Why would you want to help them like that?

Sure

[flyinwhitey]

"That's funny... I must have missed the part where your right to say anything you want includes a guarantee of an audience."

Sure, as soon as you explain how what you said makes any sense.

You're free to take whatever measure you like, or none at all, to include or exclude yourself from spam lists. My measure took about 20 minutes, and the occasional maintenance. No one is forcing you to be an audience for anything.

See, what you want is convenience, and that is certainly NOT guaranteed in the Constitution.