At 10:24 PM 5/4/01 +0300, Sampo Syreeni wrote: >On Thu, 3 May 2001, David Honig wrote: > >>>Professor Cass Sunstein, one of America's leading constitutional scholars, >>>has written a new book, Republic.com*, which argues against the unfettered >>>right to block one's ears. >> >>Pretty funny. I know of gedankenplanz to create goggles that filter out >>the advertisements you see on clothing, billboards, etc. > >I think what is being argued for, here, is legislation - making it criminal >to 'push' information on people. Unless you approach spam legally with a denial-of-service/cost-of-processing/illegal hacking (breaking, entering, vandalism) attack you'd come under 1st amendment problems (in the US; more tyrannical States have it easier, Saudi Arabia could behead spammers). I believe the CP Movement Doctrine Handbook mentions that laws preventing speaker behavior are to be avoided when listener behavior can counter, but I may have an older edition. In any case, the ad-filtering goggles are a way to use technology (a truly personal firewall :-) regardless of what your local poliscum concoct this month.
