On Spam & other system failures

Today was the first time we received more than 10,000 spam mails.

What a proud achievement of democracy!

Huh, what the two have to do with each other? Well, for one, both are a nuisance, full of the proverbial and neither do what the message claims they would.

Lemme explain, if ya will. Spam is protected by the well-paid interpretation of an ammendment to the US constitution. But what if don't happen to be in the US? What if I ain't American? What if my country of residence forbids spam of all types and flavours?
The spam still arrives in my inbox everyday, pretty much non-stop, because somebody in the US makes use of his constitutional rights and sends it.

Sure Congress (you know, the opposite of pro-gress), passed some bill (and the buck), and spam is frbidden unless it's allowed and spammers have to follow strict guidelines unless they don't.

If you ask me, this looks like a conspiracy theorists backyard. You know the fertile soil he grows the weirdest stuff in. I propose that the reason nobody acts against spam more actively is simply that the powers that are WANT the networks to be overloaded. They WANT that spammers annoy us all to death, because sooner or later we will beg them to make it stop.

And when we do, they will say, no problem, everybody gets a personal IP address. For life. Everyone and everything connecting to the Net, can do so only with a registered IP address, and everyone can be identified by that address.

In other words, give up privacy, give up free speech, and we'll make the spam stop.

In the meantime, we'll let it happen, call it the American way, and blame it on servers in China or whoever else is the bad boy country of the day.

Think about it.