Sigh, friends don't let politicians write tech laws

Fri Jul 29 21:31:01 UTC 2022

So instead of applying a label, just drop the email outright.

-Dan

On Fri, 29 Jul 2022, Michael Thomas wrote:

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> https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/senate-bill/4409/text?r=9&s=1
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> the body of the proposed law:
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> "(a) Conduct prohibited.—
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> (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."
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> where to even start with how bad this would be.
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> thanks for the heads up from Anne Mitchell
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> Mike
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