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Re: content regulation, was Verizon Policy Statement on Net Neutrality

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (John R. Levine)
Sat Feb 28 09:34:19 2015

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>> With the "legal content" rule, I expect some bottom feeding bulk
>> mailers to sue claiming that their CAN SPAM compliant spam is legal,
>> therefore the providers can't block it.
>
> How would this legal environment be any different than the pre-Verizon
> network neutrality rules for network management of SPAM?

Until yesterday, there were no network neutrality rules, not for spam or 
for anything else.

R's,
John

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