EFF co-founder John Gilmore removed from org's Board

Re:EFF co-founder John Gilmore removed from org's Board by gary_0 on Monday October 25, 2021 @09:20PM (#28995299)

This is basically one of the oldest problems on the Net, spam, back to haunt us. We got complacent, sitting back while Google filtered the junk out of our search results and inboxes. But who watches the watchmen? Now, v1agra ads and Serdar Argic[0] have evolved under our noses into camouflaged and effective predators glutted on endless Eternal September fodder.

Now that the Net has devolved into a political battlefield, how do you draw the line between a censorship regime and a spam filter? Was there ever a difference?

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serdar_Argic

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Re:EFF co-founder John Gilmore removed from org's Board by anyonecancode on Monday October 25, 2021 @10:02PM (#28995600)

That's really interesting! When I first saw your comment I thought to myself "well sure, spam is kind of like this, but that's more about commercial/marketing," and on clicking the link and learning about Serdar Argic, I see that, actually, the first big spam incident was actually political trolling. Did not know that history.

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