Re: legislation
- Date: Thu, 25 Feb 1999 00:37:57 GMT
- Organization: European Coalition Against Unsolicited Commercial Email
On Wed, 24 Feb 1999 16:32:40 +0100, Jan Meijer <Jan.Meijer@localhost
wrote:
> Virginia makes some progress in lawmaking:
>
> http://members.aol.com/acluva/freespeech.htm
>
> although it's been opposed. Don't know if this is old news.
>
The latest can be seen at
http://www.abcnews.go.com/wire/US/AP19990224_104.html
and at
http://nt.excite.com/news/r/990224/00/news-spam
from 7b1p2o$9c7$1@localhost in news.admin.net-abuse.email
> Here are some excerpts from the Reuters release:
> ----------------------------
> Lawmakers in Virginia, home to America Online Inc., the nation's
> largest Internet service provider, adopted legislation Tuesday that
> would make it a crime to send mass, unsolicited electronic
> mailings, known as "spam," on the Internet.
>
> The bill, which Gov. James Gilmore has promised to sign, would
> make Virginia the first state in the nation to have the power to
> criminally prosecute people accused of spamming.
~~~
> ACLU of Virginia's executive director, Kent Willis, said there was
> little evidence that spamming was enough of a problem to justify
> constraints on free speech on the Internet.
>
> "Expression is protected in the commercial context as well as the
> noncommercial context, and no one has yet to come up with a
> valid or compelling state interest in limiting the way e-mail is sent,"
> he said.
GWM (B.)
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