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Taxing E-mail as a Way to Curb Spam
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posted by scubacuda
on Monday May 05, @01:29AM
from the good-luck-getting-that-one-passed dept.
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In this FT editorial Christopher Caldwell criticizes current attempts to regulate spam. Re: Lessig's bounty-on-spammer proposal: This is a terrible idea that will make millionaires of two classes of people: reprobates who illegally maraud through others' hard drives; and those who have built their expertise about spam by peddling it. Caldwell considers the recent FTC spam conference "barking up the wrong tree," and thinks that the simplest way to regulate spam is through a tax:This requires smashing some myths....But, very soon, the Internet should turn into a penny post, with a levy of 1 cent per letter. This would cost the average e-mailer about $10 a year. Small companies would pay bills in the hundreds of dollars; very large ones in the thousands. And spammers would be driven to honest employment. The tax could be made progressive by exempting, say, those who sent fewer than 5,000 letters a year. The proceeds could go to maintain and expand bandwidth. /. responds.
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