Vipul Ved Prakash writes:
Free (commercial)speech for you (perhaps at our expense), but no free speech for us?
VVP> This is peculiar. Nobody seems to mind ads in Newspapers, printed VVP> magazines, TV, and for that matter web sites. That is unwanted VVP> stuff too, but now someone is paying for it. In the first three cases, the advertising subsidises the cost of the media - ever notice that the advertiser-free[1] channels are more expensive? In the last case, I decide to request the advertising, increasing my time on-line, potentially increasing my cost of access. In the case of email spam, the advertiser decides to force me to receive the advertising, increasing my time on-line, potentially increasing my cost of access. -- #include <disclaimer.h> /* Sten Drescher */ ObCDABait: For she doted upon their paramours, whose flesh is as the flesh of asses, and whose issue is like the issue of horses. [Eze 23:20] Unsolicited solicitations will be proofread for a US$500/KB fee.