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Spam filters are a form of censorship. Not all censorship is bad.
by googthrowaway42 6y ago
Spam filters are a form of censorship. Not all censorship is bad.
- Silhouette 6y agoAnd from the other perspective, not all spam filters are good, either. There is a real problem today with a relatively small number of organisations that host a lot of email accounts being so aggressive with their filtering that it has undermined the basic mechanics and reliability of email as a communications channel. Stronger obligations on those claiming to provide an email hosting service to actually deliver legitimate mail to their account holders, or to at least provide an effective and standardised recovery mechanism when they make a bad judgement while trying to block junk mail, wouldn't go amiss.