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You have to actively opt-in to spamfilters/advertisement blockers though, or at the very least can opt-out (e.g. look into your spambox).
by dtech 9y ago
You have to actively opt-in to spamfilters/advertisement blockers though, or at the very least can opt-out (e.g. look into your spambox).
- detaro 9y agoInternet companies remove users posting spam all the time.
- ocdtrekkie 9y agoThe act of spamming people is, in fact, illegal. Having an opinion isn't.
- detaro 9y agoIs it? e-mail spam yes, I don't think posting advertising on websites or social media is per se - still companies act against it if it doesn't meet their own thresholds.
- intopieces 9y agoLet’s be careful not to conflate legal with ethical. It could very easily be legal to censor all hate speech (Canada and UK have these laws). And I mean government censorship, not we-don’t-want-to-do-business-with-you-censorship.
- ocdtrekkie 9y agoI was very explicitly speaking of "legal". With acts like the CAN-SPAM Act, a lot of spam is, in fact, illegal, and it isn't by any stretch a restriction of free speech for an infrastructure provider to shut down someone sending illegal spam.
- imgabe 9y agoThe fact that it's illegal, that is, the government has outlawed that form of speech, renders it very clearly a free speech restriction.