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Re: Nato warns of strike against cyber attackers
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Larry Sheldon)
Wed Jun 9 17:05:15 2010
Date: Wed, 09 Jun 2010 16:05:06 -0500
From: Larry Sheldon <LarrySheldon@cox.net>
To: nanog@nanog.org
In-Reply-To: <6994E5E9-AD13-43DB-9137-07217DE03D0F@delong.com>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On 6/9/2010 15:56, Owen DeLong wrote:
>
> On Jun 9, 2010, at 8:26 AM, Brielle Bruns wrote:
>
>> On 6/9/10 6:27 AM, Jorge Amodio wrote:
>>> Going back then to a previous question, do we want more/any regulation ?
>>
>> Laws and regulation exist because people can't behave civilly and be expected to respect the rights/boundries/property others.
>>
>> CAN-SPAM exists because the e-mail marketing business refused to self regulate and respect the wishes of consumers/administrators
>>
> Which is good, because it certainly eliminated most of the SPAM. -- NOT!
It is actually an outstanding example of something of something I spoke
of here earlier.
Without any exception that I know of, regulations are written to protect
the entrenched. CAN-SPAM was written to protect spammers, not to
prevent anything important to them.
--
Somebody should have said:
A democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for dinner.
Freedom under a constitutional republic is a well armed lamb contesting
the vote.
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