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To be clear, are you saying that any email subscription service (e.g., newsletters, activity notifications) is immoral/evil, even with enthusiastic informed con
by tomhoward 6y ago
To be clear, are you saying that any email subscription service (e.g., newsletters, activity notifications) is immoral/evil, even with enthusiastic informed consent, double-opt-in, 1-click unsubscribe support, and any other measures to ensure the sending of email is welcomed by the user and no messages are sent after such time as they become unwelcome; even with all that, is there no conceivable legitimate, moral, non-evil use for this product?
For instance, a project I help to operate is a platform to help surgeons find anaesthetists for their surgeries, sometimes for emergencies at very short notice. It currently sends a few hundred emails a day, and everyone who receives them absolutely wants and needs to receive them. If the project keeps growing, the email volume could grow into the thousands per day. Is this morally reprehensible?
- ddevault 6y ago>To be clear, are you saying that any email subscription service (e.g., newsletters, activity notifications) is immoral/evil, even with enthusiastic informed consent, double-opt-in, 1-click unsubscribe support, and any other measures to ensure the sending of email is welcomed by the user and no messages are sent after such time as they become unwelcome This project is not described by your summary. A project which could be described as such would not be immoral. But that's not what this is: this is a tool for enabling spam distribution.
- tomhoward 6y agoOK, but on this: > I intend to keep pushing back against wrongdoing, or else it'll keep happening Given that it's not obvious why this project is overwhelmingly more suited to spam than legit the subscribed/responsible email distribution of the kind I described, you're not doing anything effective to keep "it" from happening, and you're only succeeding in yukking up HN.