12th January 2006, 6:28 AM
I guess president Bush got in to an argument with OB1 too.
This has very little to do with internet message boards and more to do with spam. the internet has no government at all so everything is up for grabs, if Bush can state a law that causes spam to be illegal we'll all have a much more pleasant internet experience, no pop-ups, no '50 emails a day' no self-installing ad-ware... it would be great.
for small websites who need income throwing a banner or two or three on their site shouldn't be an issue even if this act is passed. It's a sponsor, the viewer is therfore accepting the advertizement of that sponsor. It's just like television, commercials come with the territory. But imagine watching a TV show and in the middle of the show it turns the channel to an infomercial periodically or bogs down the network so bad you cant even watch the show. That's what's happening and it seriously needs to be adressed.
You cant stop people from doing or saying what they want on the internet but you can stop business and their third parties from shoving krap down our throats.
Interesting ideal though, that the president can enitiate an act for something the entire world uses over a physical world-wide network. I wonder if he's speaking specifically of .com
This has very little to do with internet message boards and more to do with spam. the internet has no government at all so everything is up for grabs, if Bush can state a law that causes spam to be illegal we'll all have a much more pleasant internet experience, no pop-ups, no '50 emails a day' no self-installing ad-ware... it would be great.
for small websites who need income throwing a banner or two or three on their site shouldn't be an issue even if this act is passed. It's a sponsor, the viewer is therfore accepting the advertizement of that sponsor. It's just like television, commercials come with the territory. But imagine watching a TV show and in the middle of the show it turns the channel to an infomercial periodically or bogs down the network so bad you cant even watch the show. That's what's happening and it seriously needs to be adressed.
You cant stop people from doing or saying what they want on the internet but you can stop business and their third parties from shoving krap down our throats.
Interesting ideal though, that the president can enitiate an act for something the entire world uses over a physical world-wide network. I wonder if he's speaking specifically of .com