Joy, joy, joy, joy!

[theweaselking]

No, asshole, spamming is not "protected speech" because it "might be religious".

And the Commonwealth of Virginia agrees!

Quoth the spammer's landshark: "The statute criminalizes sending bulk anonymous e-mail, even for the purpose of petitioning the government or promoting religion."

Why yes, yes it DOES, that's the point. All unsolicited bulk and commercial email is spam. All spam is vandalism and theft of resources. You don't have a right to "free speach" all over my lawn, and you don't have a right to use my printing press, so FUCK OFF.

All spammers must die.

Comments

[lafinjack.livejournal.com]

The decision was only 5-4. He's totally going to appeal.

[mcfnord.livejournal.com]

i bet if this were religious spam, it would have prevailed. next you'll argue that i can't knock on your door to talk w/u about jesus christ. then you'll round up the jews. GODWIN AND MATCH.

[cleodhna.livejournal.com]

Is 'speach' a common parlance spelling? If so, I object.

[theweaselking.livejournal.com]

It's a net-ism, idiotically coined by people trying to defend spam as free speech.

[cleodhna.livejournal.com]

Aha. Thank you. I have a hard time keeping up with all the netspeak.

[theweaselking.livejournal.com]

This is an *old* one. It was going around in 1993 or so, maybe earlier.

[cleodhna.livejournal.com]

It's also a common spelling error, so in those days of yore before spellcheckers and after anyone cared about spelling all that much, I probably took it for that.

I don't do textese either. Perhaps I am a language luddite.