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Michigan Enforces Do-Not-Email Registry Law

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the think-of-the-children dept.

elanghe writes "The Michigan Attorney General filed suit against two companies sending adult-oriented email messages to the state's children, in violation of the Michigan Children's Protection Registry. A similar law in Utah is being challenged by the porn industry. While the FTC, influenced by the Direct Marketing Association, rejected the idea of a do-not-email registry, have these two states proven anti-spam laws like these — unlike CAN-SPAM — really have teeth?"

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  1. Re:The Love of Money by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Take some porn and go to your downtown local metropolis. Now hand out those pornographic pictures to everyone, young and old alike. See how long you can do that until you're arrested.

    Point well taken, but have you been to Las Vegas lately :).

  2. Re:The Love of Money by giorgiofr · · Score: 4, Insightful

    I'm sure that if you start hitting these companies with $10,000 fines per violation that they would pay attention to the list.

    Good luck fining and/or shutting down a fly-by-night company registered in Vanuatu using an anonimous credit card founded via E-Gold.
    Unless you barricade yourself behind a US-only barrier of SMTP servers, required by law to apply certain filtering criteria to email *or else* (China, anyone?), you're not going to stop them. And I think the remedy would be far worse than the illness, to be frank.

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  3. Michigan AG's name... by SwedeGeek · · Score: 5, Funny

    Is it just me or is there some irony in the Michigan AG's name being Mike Cox. Seems like we should also be protecting our children from inapproriate material by leaving his name out of the news reports!