Frequent Slashdot Contributor Bennett Haselton is back with a story about fighting censorship with spam. He starts "Is it OK to send unsolicited e-mail to users in China, Iran, and other censored countries, telling them about new proxy sites for getting around Internet censorship? I hasten to add that I have NOT done this, am not planning on doing it and would not have any idea how to go about it anyway. Between the various companies that offer proxy services, I don't know of anyone who is doing it (no, not even people who swore me to secrecy about it). But I think the question involves ethical issues that would not apply to most discussions of spam." Hit that big link below to read the rest of his words.Read more of this story at Slashdot. </img>
My anachro-humanist side screams yes. I would have no ethical problems with sending large quantities of targeted data to servers in countries that have a censorship policy.
And it wouldn't be spam, spam is stupid, pointless and annoying. These messages would have a point, be intelligently written...and ok.. yes they would annoy the hell out of the censors.
****, how could they censor the internet, we're really living in a bad world. Im just asking me one question (like the Queen song) "Is this the world we created ?" (by the way its a wonderfull song)
