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German Court: "Sharing" Your Amazon Purchases Is Spamming (reuters.com)
An anonymous reader writes: A court in Germany has ruled that the 'Share' links which Amazon provides to customers directly after making a purchase at the site are unlawful. The "Share" functionality provides buttons which allow the consumer to signal a new purchase via Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, or email. The court, ratifying an earlier decision made at a lower court, declared that emails initiated via the Share function constitute "unsolicited advertising and unreasonable harassment."
It's freedom of speech if you take the link, copy it into Facebook or Twitter and say "just got me one of these babies".
It's spam when a commercial entity gives you a quick means of shilling their product without stopping to think "do my friends really give a shit?" It's doubly spam if your friends email is ever provided to Amazon in this process without their consent.
Because if your friends didn't give Amazon permission to send email, pretending like you spontaneously sent the email is kind of bullshit.
No, sorry, making commercial communication appear to have been a spontaneous outpouring by consumers is a shady way of getting around stuff like opt-in.
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There are spam laws, you can't just pretend they don't exist.
I sure as hell don't want to use an internet where any asshole can decided that I don't get a vote in if I see their commercial speech or not.
Sorry, take your anti-government crap elsewhere. Accepting all spam as free speech is idiotic. You do not have the freedom to send me unsolicited commercial email just because you're an ass who thinks its his right.
Fuck that. The onslaught of bullshit from corporations would be impossible.
I don't give a shit about what some asshole in marketing believes is the free speech of his company.
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without stopping to think "do my friends really give a shit?"
So, basically no different from the entire rest of Facebook?
"I just ate a bag of Doritos" - I don't give a shit.
"Look at these pictures of my new puppy/baby/ocelot/car/hairstyle" - I don't give a shit.
"I just bought a new Dyson Vacuum on Amazon" - I don't give a shit.
"Sally has just changed her relationship status to emotional blackmail" - I don't give a shit.
"I just took a great big shit" - Nope, I still don't give a shit.
Seriouslyl? I mean...why?
I know there are some people out there who like to brag, or show off....but I can't believe that is in the majority out there, is it?
Are there really a significant enough number of people that actually 'share' some if not all of what they buy online??
Light travels faster than sound. This is why some people appear bright until you hear them speak.........