CAN-SPAM is non-solicited pornography and marketing according to the text. The issue that I am primarily concerned with and will be blogging about is not the marketing but the pornography. Although president Bush enstated the act in 2003 and the percentages of this spam is reasonably down since 2003 there is still a percentage of bothersome spam's going through.
For example it can go to your email even if you've never been to any similar site and your gender is also not exempt. I personally have to change my email every year or two due to pornographic spam getting sent to me. I used to have a Myspace account where there were dummy accounts formed in order to send pornographic spam to users not only attacking me but some of my friends and collegues had the same issues. There are other examples of websites such as Facebook users or hackers providing pornographic images on Facebook and creating dummy accounts much like Myspace where the IT staff at Facebook has to fix these issues. On the website Deviant Art where people can blog, post their own art/drawings, and poetry. People have hacked into people's personal accounts and added pornographic images to their profile and added comments pretending to be the account holder as well. There are issues on YouTube where a person will be searching for a video and either recieve the wrong type of video or at the end of the video where there is other like-video suggestions are pornographic as well.
With all of these descriptions this is a problem. This not only lowers the standards and reputation of the website but it also puts induviduals in jepardy through hacking and ruining innocent people's image online which is not easily erased. It is equally frustrating to people who are innocent who annoyed by these things where they have delete, replace, and clean out accounts as well as the danger of children witnessing these things while online. These incriminating and falsehoods can also put people in legal danger and withold them from jobs based on something they never even did in the first place. Although CAN-SPAM may be sharply reduced than it was 7 years ago it is still a problem and enough a problem to ruin someone's identity, force them to change accoungs, delete accounts all togehter, provide to be an annoyance, be dangerous to children, ruin jobs and marriages as well.
Do you see this to still be a problem and an annoyance? How has this kind of a thing hurt innocent adults from things such as (jobs and relationships) in their life? Have you heard in recent years what it has done to children?
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