[governance] Senate OKs Immunity for Telecoms

[Suresh Ramasubramanian]

Dan Krimm [16/02/08 14:52 -0800]:
>In short, EFF may be involved in "propaganda" at times, but not *just*
>propaganda -- their main activity is litigation in the public interest,
>usually against either large monopolistic corporations (progressive) or the
>government itself (libertarian).  While EFF takes strong stands on ICT

Progressive? When it comes to innuendo, twisting truth around like pretzels
.. they have Karl Rove beat.

I've had a longish record of calling their bluff on one uninformed bit of
anti antispam propaganda after the other, the last one being this -
http://www.circleid.com/posts/eff_use_of_propaganda_karl_rove/

It doesnt really help that they have a raving lunatic like John Gilmore
calling the tune there.  His diatribe here prompted me to write that post by
the way .. scroll down, rather nearer the end of the thread. Pasted below

[quote]

http://blogs.securiteam.com/index.php/archives/664

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John Gilmore, on October 25th, 2006 at 9:24 pm Said:

Spam is a problem but anti-spammers are a much bigger problem. (Communism
was a perceived problem in the US in the 50s but Senator McCarthy and his
unaccountable blacklists created a much bigger problem.)

e360 was right to sue Spamhaus for operating a conspiracy to drive their
email businesses out of the market. I have never found an anti-spammer who
was honest. My own server is on most anti-spammer blacklists though I have
never sent a single spam message, nor have I violated any other law
relating to sending email. (They.ve made up a whole set of other rules of
their own devising . that they claim I.m supposed to follow, otherwise
they.ll interfere with my communication.)

Delegating censorship decisions about your email . and even worse, your
customers. email . to unreliable third parties is not only irresponsible,
it also constitutes a conspiracy to deny service. Antitrust laws outlaw a
majority of firms in a market from doing exactly that. (It.s like Intel and
Microsoft deciding that their products will refuse to work on an AMD
processor.) Even worse, anti-spammers like Vixie or spamhaus deliberately
block more people than the spammers, in order to blackmail those people
into joining the conspiracy.

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