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Re: What can ISPs do better? Removing racism out of internet
From: Rob McEwen <rob () invaluement com>
Date: Wed, 7 Aug 2019 11:24:57 -0400
On 8/7/2019 10:50 AM, Tony Patti wrote:
FYI, /Bloomberg BusinessWeek/ published _TODAY_ a 3,200-word article by Felix Gillette entitled*"Section 230 Was Supposed to Make the Internet a Better Place. It Failed"*https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2019-08-07/section-230-was-supposed-to-make-the-internet-a-better-place-it-failed
If the whole Section 230 gets deleted - and isn't carefully replaced - then many DNSBLs and spam filters and spam filtering technology providers with get sued out of business (even if just by SLAPP lawsuits suddenly making more progress and costing a fortune in attorney feeds). These costs will then get passed onto consumers in the form of either MUCH WORSE spam filtering, or much higher costs for email hosting services. The same is true for Internet content filters, too.
Be careful what you wish for, you might get it! -- Rob McEwen
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- Re: What can ISPs do better? Removing racism out of internet, (continued)
- Re: What can ISPs do better? Removing racism out of internet Dan Hollis (Aug 06)
- Re: What can ISPs do better? Removing racism out of internet bzs (Aug 06)
- Re: What can ISPs do better? Removing racism out of internet Mel Beckman (Aug 06)
- Re: What can ISPs do better? Removing racism out of internet Anne P. Mitchell, Esq. (Aug 05)
- Re: What can ISPs do better? Removing racism out of internet bzs (Aug 05)
- Re: What can ISPs do better? Removing racism out of internet Anne P. Mitchell, Esq. (Aug 05)
- Re: What can ISPs do better? Removing racism out of internet Sabri Berisha (Aug 06)
- Re: What can ISPs do better? Removing racism out of internet John Levine (Aug 06)
- Re: What can ISPs do better? Removing racism out of internet Mel Beckman (Aug 06)
- RE: What can ISPs do better? Removing racism out of internet Tony Patti (Aug 07)
- Re: What can ISPs do better? Removing racism out of internet Rob McEwen (Aug 07)
- Re: What can ISPs do better? Removing racism out of internet bzs (Aug 07)
- RE: What can ISPs do better? Removing racism out of internet Keith Medcalf (Aug 07)
- RE: What can ISPs do better? Removing racism out of internet bzs (Aug 07)
- Re: What can ISPs do better? Removing racism out of internet John Covici (Aug 08)
- Re: What can ISPs do better? Removing racism out of internet bzs (Aug 07)
- Re: What can ISPs do better? Removing racism out of internet Eric Tykwinski (Aug 06)
- Re: What can ISPs do better? Removing racism out of internet John Levine (Aug 06)
- Re: What can ISPs do better? Removing racism out of internet Mel Beckman (Aug 06)
- Re: What can ISPs do better? Removing racism out of internet Harald Koch (Aug 05)