[governance] IGP Alert: "Net Neutrality as Global Principle for Internet Governance"

[Norbert Bollow]

Milton L Mueller <mueller at syr.edu> wrote:

> And there is no principled objection to filtering spam because
> almost all of it constitutes undesired messages which exploit the
> ability to free ride on the Internet resources of others.

I disagree.

As long as the fundamental design of the email system is not fixed
to make it possible to reliably avoid the problem of false positives
in spam filtering, spam filtering is inherently problematic.

For example, with many spam filter systems, email messages containing
Christian religious words have a much higher probability of being
falsely classified as spam.  That is a violation of net neutrality
with regard to freedom of religion.

Greetings,
Norbert.


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Norbert Bollow <nb at bollow.ch>                      http://Norbert.ch
President of the Swiss Internet User Group SIUG    http://SIUG.ch
Working on establishing a non-corrupt and
truly /open/ international standards organization  http://OpenISO.org
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