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Free market solution to spam
This little conversation started in the Ron Paul video thread, I thought I should really pull it out to an OP:
[ QUOTE ] [ QUOTE ] Interestingly, Ron Paul was the only congressman to vote no on a bill passed in 2000 that fines spammers. http://www.wired.com/politics/law/news/2000/07/37665 [/ QUOTE ] How is this interesting? It's not the Federal government's job to fine spammers, hence Paul voted no. [/ QUOTE ] Incidentally, this is a prime example of a situation where government intervention could crowd out a free market solution. Various congresspeople have suggested government-size-12-interventions into email to prevent spam including imprisoning spammers (yes, already happens), levying a tax on email, and numerous other suggested programs. The free market is failing to prevent the scourge of spam, right? Enter an information economist from MIT: Check out this paper And it has spawned this startup The basic idea is to use an attention-bond mechanism to make it economically impossible to send spam. They've actually proved mathematically that it is possible for their solution to be *better* than a perfect spam filter. Free market FTW! |
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Re: Free market solution to spam
The whole punish-paradigm was never intended to actually solve problems.
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Re: Free market solution to spam
Stopping "spam" is stopping free speech.
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Stopping "spam" is stopping free speech. [/ QUOTE ] Yup. This solution requires people to post a bond to ensure that you actually want to read the email. If you don't you take the bond. Enough people would claim the bond on spam that it would make it not feasible. |
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Stopping "spam" is stopping free speech. [/ QUOTE ] Spam is a method of preventing free speech, flooding communication channels with noise in order to drown out unwanted discourse. q/q |
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Re: Free market solution to spam
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[ QUOTE ] Stopping "spam" is stopping free speech. [/ QUOTE ] Spam is a method of preventing free speech, flooding communication channels with noise in order to drown out unwanted discourse. q/q [/ QUOTE ] [img]/images/graemlins/confused.gif[/img] your both right = [img]/images/graemlins/confused.gif[/img] [img]/images/graemlins/confused.gif[/img] |
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Re: Free market solution to spam
I have not seen a reduction in spam since this law was passed. A free market solution is necessary because government is incompetent and ineffective. To my knowledge, they caught one so-called mass spammer in the seven years this law has been in effect. Meanwhile I got 50 junk emails in my hotmail box today and the only one that made it into the junk folder was a legitimate email. On the other side, I almost never see spam in my gmail account. (Thank you Google!)
I don't consider spam prevention the suppression of "free speech." Are you infringing on someone's free speech rights if you tell them they can't come into your house and shout in your ear? |
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[ QUOTE ] Stopping "spam" is stopping free speech. [/ QUOTE ] Spam is a method of preventing free speech, flooding communication channels with noise in order to drown out unwanted discourse. q/q [/ QUOTE ] LOL Ironyaments |
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[ QUOTE ] Stopping "spam" is stopping free speech. [/ QUOTE ] Spam is a method of preventing free speech, flooding communication channels with noise in order to drown out unwanted discourse. q/q [/ QUOTE ] Right. The guy trying to sell you a whatever penny stock pump-and-dump is really just trying to keep you from reading your messages from match.com. |
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[ QUOTE ] [ QUOTE ] Stopping "spam" is stopping free speech. [/ QUOTE ] Spam is a method of preventing free speech, flooding communication channels with noise in order to drown out unwanted discourse. q/q [/ QUOTE ] Right. The guy trying to sell you a whatever penny stock pump-and-dump is really just trying to keep you from reading your messages from match.com. [/ QUOTE ] I'm confused by the point of your post? You agree that spam is an initiation of force, right? |
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