Re: Sigh, friends don't let politicians write tech laws

[Anne Mitchell <amitchell () isipp com>]

> On Jul 29, 2022, at 3:05 PM, Michael Thomas <mike () mtcc com> wrote:
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> https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/senate-bill/4409/text?r=9&s=1
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> the body of the proposed law:
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> "(a) Conduct prohibited.—
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> (1) IN GENERAL.—It shall be unlawful for an operator of an email service to use a filtering algorithm to apply a 
> label to an email sent to an email account from a political campaign unless the owner or user of the account took 
> action to apply such a label."
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> where to even start with how bad this would be.
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> thanks for the heads up from Anne Mitchell

You're welcome, and..yeah.  For our article explaining it in plain English, and also saying exactly what to do to 
defeat it (really hoping to see the sponsors and committee chairs (it's already in committee) deluged with letters in 
opposition), see here:

https://www.isipp.com/blog/do-you-want-political-email-to-bypass-spam-filters-and-go-directly-to-your-inbox-congress-does-heres-what-to-do/

Anne

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Anne P. Mitchell, Attorney at Law
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Author: Section 6 of the CAN-SPAM Act of 2003 (the Federal anti-spam law)
Author: The Email Deliverability Handbook
Board of Directors, Denver Internet Exchange
Dean Emeritus, Cyberlaw & Cybersecurity, Lincoln Law School
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