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The tech industry regulates email spam regularly - not to a prefect degree but to a much better state than throwing up your hands and doing nothing. And it’s n
by dv_dt 3y ago
The tech industry regulates email spam regularly - not to a prefect degree but to a much better state than throwing up your hands and doing nothing.
And it’s not just filtering incoming spam, spam abusive accounts are regularly removed from service providers.
- earthboundkid 3y agoThe CAN SPAM Act didn't "can spam" (spammers don't care that they are breaking the law) but it did successfully make it so that all the legitimate commercial emails you get have an unsubscribe link at the bottom. It's important to recognize where government regulation can help (the unsubscribe links are great!) and where it has limited effect (if you're selling fake boner pills, you don't care about breaking some other law).