You both misunderstood.

Lee, the FSC does not want children to get porn in their email. I usually don't have much good to say about that organization, but there are very good sound legal reasons to challenge the Utah law.

First, this is a state law that seeks to regulate an industry that doesn't work within state lines. Success of the Utah law could mean a patchwork of 50 different sets of laws for web-based businesses to comply with, so this one needs to be overturned so that more states don't get brilliant ideas to impose regulations and create their own lists.

Second, the 1st Amendment argument is the strongest argument against the law, so of course it will be used.

Third, the US Federal CAN SPAM Act already regulates Spam, and a state law cannot stand where federal law supercedes.

Fourth, this imposes a financial burden on legal spam that is just a fascade for keeping legal adult entertainment out of the hands of consenting adults. Please note that anyone who sends bulk emails needs to PAY for the list of "don't spam me" addresses, and pay for it 12 times a year.

So, if I plan to send out bulk mails advertising my Hot Sex with Lactating Mormon Great-Grandmothers (dot com), due to the global nature of the internet I better get that list or risk being prosecuted, even though I only wanted to send my mail to a list of email addresses gathered from double-opt-in visitors to my other website, Grizzled Old Men Watching Lawrence Welk (dot com) because 4 months ago some 16 year-old with a wrinkle fetish signed on my site up for adult-oriented emails after swearing to god and everybody else that he was 18 (I paid $395 for an Adult Verification program that made him SWEAR he was 18!!! ) and this month his mother added his email address (without him knowing it) to the Don't Spam Me list.


THAT is supposed to make me a criminal? And I should go to JAIL?

No fucking way.



Please, whoever kidnapped Lee and made Jerry Falwell ghost write for him, I want Lee back.

Kelly---
:wacko:

You are such a goof~