Gary Murphy:
>How do you intend to take legal (and/or violent) action against people a
>world away and in a culture you can barely understand let alone
>understand how to properly bribe? I'm not so hopeful this method can work
>against aromatherapy viagra when we can't even track and convict murderous
>Nigerian mafia, and they are blatant!
Spammers fall into two categories. The more
difficult case are those whose back-end business
can be executed entirely in a foreign nation, such
as the 419 spammers. And you're right: there's not
much we can do about those, except filter them in
various ways. But the vast majority of spammers
have a back-end business that requires a native
presence. Debt consolidation. Mortgages. Herbalife
and other MLMs. Even porn sites require credit
card transactions. That means the people responsible
CAN be found.
>I don't know of any law that specifically /exempts/ them from lawsuits,
>it's just that no one has yet succeeded in any important way.
There have been some successful suits, but (a) it
takes too much effort, and (b) the result isn't enough
to deter the spammer. But you're talking about action
constrained by law. In an anarchy, people act more
directly, with less cost, and to more effect. Spammers
very quickly would learn their lesson. Except for the
ones who ply their scam in a foreign country.
Of course, that's assuming there are ISPs and other
infrastructure in an anarchy. Arguing about how things
would work without the state involves a large degree
of counterfactual reasoning.
>no lawmaker has ever been even a tenth the catalyst on improving the
>quality of life in Britain and the western world as did central heating and
>the invention of one A.J.Crapper.
Hmm. I've lived most of my life in houses that did
not have central heating, including my current abode.
As to the crapper, it did not do nearly as much to
improve waste management in cities as did the public
sewers which it feeds, and the water lines that supply
it. Without these, you would find that a chamber pot
works just as well.
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