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The Internet is under increasing attacks with unwanted traffic in the form of spam, distributed denial of service, virus, worms, etc.

Does "etc." include pornography and certain forms of poltical speech which do not conform to local community standards?

not for this conference, no. this is about technology not politics/customs.

Or are you folks conveniently ignoring the large-scale side effects of technological advances in this area? 8-)

if those side effects are also technological then they are fair game.