Are you sure it's the point itself shapeshifting and not your responses to it? > have massive corporate power, and that massive corporate power translates into

Are you sure it's the point itself shapeshifting and not your responses to it? > have massive corporate power, and that massive corporate power translates into them acting like every other [massive corporate] email provider with a spam blacklist If that's how you want to sum it up, sure. Unaccountable corporate power is bad. That people instinctively reach for the "M-word" in response to this dynamic doesn't invalidate their criticisms. And no, I don't find your "if corpos didn't do this on their own then the government would force it" argument compelling. The problem isn't spam filtering (etc), but rather the details of how they're implemented.