{"id":1726,"date":"2003-10-06T10:18:41","date_gmt":"2003-10-06T17:18:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mossback.org\/archives\/2003\/10\/john-gilmore-loves-spam\/"},"modified":"2003-10-06T10:18:41","modified_gmt":"2003-10-06T17:18:41","slug":"john-gilmore-loves-spam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/2003\/10\/06\/john-gilmore-loves-spam\/","title":{"rendered":"John Gilmore loves Spam"},"content":{"rendered":"

\t\t\t\tIf you don’t like Spam, you must be a fringe minority, according to terrorist-friendly John Gilmore,<\/a> the airline button boy we love so much:<\/p>\n

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Citizens want cheap communication; they call their friends, they email their family and their interest groups; they flood their elected officials with email or faxes for or against proposals. They post notes around the neighborhood for-or-against politicians or issues. They advertise their own products and services. They want to be able to send any message they want, to any people they want. They just don’t want to receive all the messages that the other six billion people want to send THEM. “Free speech for me, not for thee” is what’s going on here. The entire idea of regulating the sending of email should be dropped<\/b>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Standing by what he believes, Gilmore operates a free spam server. Helluva guy, right?<\/p>\n

UPDATE: Jeff Jarvis<\/a> hears Douglas Rushkoff pounding the pro-spam tom-tom as well.\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

If you don’t like Spam, you must be a fringe minority, according to terrorist-friendly John Gilmore, the airline button boy we love so much: Citizens want cheap communication; they call their friends, they email their family and their interest groups; they flood their elected officials with email or faxes for or against proposals. They post … Continue reading “John Gilmore loves Spam”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1726","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-comp"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pbifyw-rQ","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1726","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1726"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1726\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1726"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1726"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1726"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}