| The EFF has a long history of supporting spam so I think Elon's efforts around shutting down bots / scammers etc will probably piss them off. What this really meant was twitter blocked nonapproved content pretty freely while openly tolerating absolutely massive amounts of spam comments / bots / scams with SUPER obvious misuse of usernames and more. I should note that they've toned their pro-spam stuff way down. Their early early rhetoric was pretty strong, by 2001 I think they'd mellowed out a bit. "Specifically, any measure for stopping spam must ensure that all non-spam messages reach their intended recipients. Proposed solutions that do not fulfill these minimal goals are themselves a form of Internet abuse and are a direct assault on the health, growth, openness and liberty of the Internet. ... Email is protected speech. There is a fundamental free speech right to be able to send and receive messages, regardless of medium. ... It is unacceptable, then, for anti-spam policies to limit legitimate rights to send or receive email. To the extent that an anti-spam proposal, whether legal or technical, results in such casualties, that proposal is unacceptable." So they really really do not like spam folders etc, and they absolutely HATE ip blocks. |