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27 Jul 2010
Recent
fairly
breathless news coverage has said that the US government
has said it's legal to jailbreak your iPhone. That's somewhat correct
but the reality is, as usual, somewhat more complex.
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Stable link is https://jl.ly/Copyright_Law/jailbreak.html
12 Jul 2010
A friend of mine wrote to ask:
The Supreme Court overturned the Jaynes conviction on First Amendment
grounds, yes? I'm wondering what that could mean from the spam
filtering perspective.
Spam filters, and in particular DNS blacklists are intended to prevent e-mail
from being delivered. Doesn't the First Amendment make it illegal
to block speech? The short answer is no, but of course it's slightly
more complicated than that in practice.
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Stable link is https://jl.ly/Email/filter1st.html
The 2004 criminal spam case against large-scale spammer Jeremy Jaynes,
which I've covered in several
previous
blog
entries,
appears to have come to an ignominious end with the state supreme
court throwing out the law under which he was convicted.
The Virginia anti-spam law was one of the first in the country with
criminal provisions, but it failed due to the way that First Amendment
cases are treated differently from all other cases.
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Stable link is https://jl.ly/Email/jaynesreverse.html
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