FTC chief warns against 'unnecessary' Net regulations

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That's not the answer

To quote : "But there needs to be SERIOUS attention by the government towards Spyware and Viruses, as well as basic privacy provisions."

That's not the answer. What you'll get then is like we got on the "Do not call" lists. The government and their special interests can spam you and monitor you put not anyone else or even someone with a legitimate reason to. I rarely got solicitous call until I put my name on the National and State DNC lists. Now I get several calls a week and sometime a day, regardless of the political season, from politicos, police depts., firemen, special interest groups that are lobbying for one thing or another and I can't stop them.

What is the answer is to let the Internet be handled more like the physical world. Or more like the physical world should be.

In ANY "civilized" nation, and I do not call socialist wimpishness "civilized", there is an understanding the governing authority is unable to successfully impede every crime, or assault before it happens and so provides for the individual citizen to defend himself, his right, his possessions and family.

Now, in the early days of the Internet, there were a number of spamming attempts made some enterprising individuals. The nature of internet connectivity was that each minute was paid for and so each minute you had to wait to download your email from a BBS, or CompuServe, or AOL or Prodigy or one of any or the many services out there, the more money it cost you. Well, because of the fact that it cost the reader to download unsolicited commercial emails it was considered in bad taste and an affront to Netiquette. Certain talented individuals devised means by which they could respond to such affronts by overwhelming the email boxes and servers from which they came. A spam source popped up and it was literally squashed, almost immediately. That's why (IMNSHO) spam, though around for years was easily less than 1% or any email traffic and in fact few people ever got any.

Then came the laws that not only forbade hackers from getting into servers, etc (a good thing) but it also made it a crime to defend your self on the Net because to cause a server you didn't own or control to degrade it's performance or to stop it's service became a crime even if that server was doing the same to you or yours.

The answer is to let us defend ourselves. Spyware, viruses and spam can all be tracked and fairly quickly.

Imagine if we were allowed to send auto replies back to all those servers relaying and originating spam like we used to. Imagine the spammers' servers sending out their 35,000,000 emails per hour and getting 100X, 1000X or 1,000,000X that many replies or pings or packets or what ever it takes, back. When spyware is found do the same to that company. When Sony breaks into your computer again and makes your CD/DVD player useless, do it to them. Make it happen on connection or when the spyware is found, make it immediate and make it legal. Make it too painful and they will finally get a real job and treat us right.

Posted by: _Shayde_   Posted on: 11/06/06 You are currently: a Guest | Members login | Terms of Use

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