Last year, Michigan and Utah passed a law creating a Child Protection Registry protecting minors from receiving or viewing illegal products and services. Illegal items include, but are not limited to:
Tobacco
Alcohol
Gambling
Prescription Drugs
Illegal Drugs
Adult Content
Guns/Knives/Weapons
Lotteries
Sweepstakes
Apparently the registry goes into affect tomorow, (Friday).
I receive an email from my mailing list provider/manager stating that I would have to comply. This means that I would have to submit my mailing lists on a monthly basis to the states of Utah & Michigan and also pay for the priveledge of sharing my mailing list with them.
Earlier today I made an announcement to all of my mailing lists, (before I had found out about this crap) that I was retiring from newsletter publishing as after 5 years I'm exhuasted. Not to mention tired of false spam complaints, (the last month has been a doozy with those -- care to guess which U.S. ISP generated the most? Hint: starts with initial "A" ends in initial "L" ), tired of fighting with ISPs to get my email through, etc...
This new legislation makes the decission easier -- There's no way I'll be submitting any mailing list to anyone so that they can clean it of people who don't want to be receiving deviant emails AND to do anything else they feel like.
Related news links:
http://www.clickz.com/news/article.php/3516736
http://news.com.com/Why+ribaldry+cou...3-5761463.html
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