That's the Law of Unintended Consequence.
These clever spelling are only one of the few consequences of this law.
There will be many others.
Also, since the US hasn't yet convinced the whole world of the extraterritoriality of his legislations and diktats, how do they expect to "protect" the people ?
This legislation was motivated and justiified by several fallacies, e.g.
1- that the government can protect you
2- that it is the job of the government to make the world safe for you
3- that with a few more legislation, we'll live in paradise
4- that the parents are not responsible for closely monitoring and supervising what their children are doing
5- that you have a right to put a gun-by-proxy (govt guns) to the head of someone who does something that you find tasteless, even if that someone does not go out of their way to harass you.
Interestingly, the true sin of spam, theft of ressources, seems not to have been adressed, since they deemed it OK to spam, as long as you disclose it in a certain way.
The tags might partially reduce the theft-of-ressouces aspect, but the improvement will only be a side-effect.
In short, they gave a moral sanction to the thugs at the expense of the productive people.
Last edited by Feynman at May 20 2004, 05:56 PM
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