BLAHRGHGHGH!!

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After spending a half hour deleting enough comment spam to make Ralph Nader worship the merits of totalitarianism, I'm convinced there needs to be some kind of judicial form of mob justice to deal with social ill. Certain states have laws that allow individuals to sue spammers in small claims court. I think that more states should adopt these laws, and also permit individuals to sue the companies/individuals that host domains used by spammers. So: company X owns such and such an IP address, so person Y spammed by person Z from this IP address can sue company X in small claims court. This would need to be publicized significantly, but I think that entrepreneurs could make a decent living off suing everyone for all of the spams that go around on the internet. Companies would then be more motivated to eliminate spammers. I simply hate this stuff.

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Me said:

What is wrong with spam. Spam is freedom of expression. To deny spammers their rights would be like taking a liking to lunchmeat.

Colin said:

I don't get that simile.

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