AnarchoCyphertopian technologies (wasRE: [extropy-chat] Reccommendations for a mailing list)

[Samantha Atkins]

Do we really need more outrageous ways to throw lives away?    a kid 
runs a script and he or his parents become wards of the state for life? 
   Someone does the ultimate mass advertising and loses their life?   
How is this remotely just?   Isn't it enough and much too much that the 
US has more of its people in prison than any country on earth?  The 
evidence also does not look good that such outrageous deterrents would 
work even if you ignore the other problems.

- samantha

On Feb 11, 2005, at 8:53 AM, Dirk Bruere wrote:
>>>
> rAnd then the last dream of 'free speech' on the Net dies with it.
> The answer to spam and virus writing/dispersal lies within the wider 
> community.
>
> If the penalties for both were severe the problem would be vastly 
> reduced.
> Spam is money motivated. Make it non-cost effective to both advertise 
> via spam and to perform the actual spamming. Full confiscation of 
> assets and lengthy jail time for a start.
> Redefine deliberate virus promulgation as terrorism and prosecute and 
> punish accordingly. After a few life sentences (no parole) have been 
> handed down I suspect the problem would fade significantly.
>
> -- 
> Dirk
>
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>
>
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