[178532] in North American Network Operators' Group
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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Date: 28 Feb 2015 09:34:12 -0500
From: "John R. Levine" <johnl@iecc.com>
To: "Collin Anderson" <collin@averysmallbird.com>
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Cc: "nanog@nanog.org" <nanog@nanog.org>
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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