Porn Spam as a Weapon, by Michael Rivero
The sheer offensiveness of the spammed porn calls attention to itself. The last time there was a huge surge on internet porn being spammed into inappropriate places and sent to people who did not want it, the "pornademic" was a run-up to a Congressional demand for more censorship and control over the internet via the "Exon/Coats Amendment" in 1995. No sooner had the amendment been passed then, like a switch, the porn spammers stopped.
They might as well have glued neon signs to their heads blinking. "I am a government operative trying to justify more control of the internet."
Right now the U.S. Government is looking for ways to silence the internet. The paid public relations shills have failed to control the online debate on the war and the U.S. Government well knows that the massive anti-war protests and phone-call campaigns were organized on the net. The next step short of outright shut-down is to discredit the internet as a haven of perverts and criminals, and it is no coincidence that as the internet becomes the high ground in the war for the minds of America that the mainstream media and government are mounting a smear campaign against the direst threat to their information monopoly.
The sheer offensiveness of the spammed porn calls attention to itself. The last time there was a huge surge on internet porn being spammed into inappropriate places and sent to people who did not want it, the "pornademic" was a run-up to a Congressional demand for more censorship and control over the internet via the "Exon/Coats Amendment" in 1995. No sooner had the amendment been passed then, like a switch, the porn spammers stopped.
They might as well have glued neon signs to their heads blinking. "I am a government operative trying to justify more control of the internet."
Right now the U.S. Government is looking for ways to silence the internet. The paid public relations shills have failed to control the online debate on the war and the U.S. Government well knows that the massive anti-war protests and phone-call campaigns were organized on the net. The next step short of outright shut-down is to discredit the internet as a haven of perverts and criminals, and it is no coincidence that as the internet becomes the high ground in the war for the minds of America that the mainstream media and government are mounting a smear campaign against the direst threat to their information monopoly.