[81386] in Cypherpunks
Re: Responses to "Spam costs and questions" (long)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Declan McCullagh)
Sat Jun 7 15:31:10 1997
Date: Sat, 7 Jun 1997 13:37:08 -0400 (EDT)
From: Declan McCullagh <declan@pathfinder.com>
To: "Igor Chudov @ home" <ichudov@algebra.com>
Cc: devnull@manifold.algebra.com, cypherpunks@toad.com
In-Reply-To: <199706070424.XAA27671@manifold.algebra.com>
Reply-To: Declan McCullagh <declan@pathfinder.com>
Such a law would be unconstitutional, I believe, and unjust. It's
compelled speech: the government forcing you to say something.
Depending on how it's worded, it could also impact core political
speech, something the courts generally don't like.
-Declan
On Fri, 6 Jun 1997, Igor Chudov @ home wrote:
>
> Is there any justification for a law that would require senders to make
> filtering easier, e.g., by attaching a [COMMERCIAL] tag to all UCEs.
>
> - Igor.
>
>
