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Utah Anti-Kids-Spam Registry "a Flop"
Eric Goldman writes "A couple of years ago Utah enacted a 'Child Protection Registry.' The idea was to allow parents to register kids' email addresses and then to require certain email senders to filter their lists against that database before sending their emails. According to the Salt Lake Tribune, the Utah registry has been a 'financial flop.' Initially projected to generate $3-6 million in revenues for Utah, it has instead produced total revenues of less than $200,000. 80% of this has gone to Unspam, the for-profit registry operator; Utah's share of the registry's revenues has been a paltry $37,445. Worse, Utah has spent $100,000 (so far) to defend the private company from legal challenges by free-speech, advertising, and porn interests."
Title should read: SCO Group's Anti-kids-spam registry "a Flop"
Brent Hatch is involved in SCO's crusade against linux. Many other similar players like Ralph Yarro and his CP80 crusade.
http://sconewsroundup.blogspot.com/ Has more info, and cites TFA.
I always thought Utah was a bit religious...
There's a reason for everything.
What?
Nope, it's a combination of the heat and the underwear. You'd be batshit crazy too.
Faster! Faster! Faster would be better!
Hey! Did Jerry Taylor get a new job and no one told me?!
Brought to you by the same group that ignores/denounces the mountain meadows massacre, pretends underaged, incestuous, polygamous, relationships did not exist and that polygamy is STILL not a part of their core doctrines, denies any connection between the masonic rituals and their own devinely inspired ceremonies, etc, etc, etc.
Utah's dominate religion gives power to a group of individuals in government that are PROUD of the skewed perspective they have on various aspects of daily life. Most people outside of the religion are unaware of the extreme points of view that are contained within the mormon belief structure and that it is supported by a large silent majority of individuals who have been indoctrinated from birth to not see any other point of view as having validity. This point cannot be proven any more completely than through the religion's own persecution of what they term 'intellectuals'.
The lawmakers were able to push through this crappy piece of legislation primarily due to the cultural environment that exists in Utah and the lack of a constituency that has the ability to apply unbiased critical thought processes to any subject linked to their core values.
Hitler had a silent majority, they were an effective ally in his war against the Jews.