On Jul 29, 2022, at 3:05 PM, Michael Thomas <mike@mtcc.com> wrote:
https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/senate-bill/4409/text?r=9&s=1
the body of the proposed law:
"(a) Conduct prohibited.—
(1) IN GENERAL.—It shall be unlawful for an operator of an email service to use a filtering algorithm to apply a label to an email sent to an email account from a political campaign unless the owner or user of the account took action to apply such a label."
where to even start with how bad this would be.
thanks for the heads up from Anne Mitchell
You're welcome, and..yeah. For our article explaining it in plain English, and also saying exactly what to do to defeat it (really hoping to see the sponsors and committee chairs (it's already in committee) deluged with letters in opposition), see here: https://www.isipp.com/blog/do-you-want-political-email-to-bypass-spam-filter... Anne -- Anne P. Mitchell, Attorney at Law CEO Institute for Social Internet Public Policy Author: Section 6 of the CAN-SPAM Act of 2003 (the Federal anti-spam law) Author: The Email Deliverability Handbook Board of Directors, Denver Internet Exchange Dean Emeritus, Cyberlaw & Cybersecurity, Lincoln Law School Prof. Emeritus, Lincoln Law School Chair Emeritus, Asilomar Microcomputer Workshop Counsel Emeritus, eMail Abuse Prevention System (MAPS)