[Previous entry: "New photos!"] [Main Index] [Next entry: "Realistic Unhappiness"]

05/26/2004: "Spam"

It's amazing what depths companies sink to in order to spam users like myself with advertisements. Recently, some stupid game company keeps trying to add comments to my blog about games.

I assume its because my website is highly ranked in some of the search engines under certain keyphrases.

But in principle, such actions by companies are akin to theft. After all, the website maintainers/owners are paying for hosting service charges that are being pilfered by companies for commercial endorsements.

In a similar vein, I've been getting a flurry of telemarketing calls on my cell phone from some automated message. I tried to complain to Sprint about it but ended up getting put on hold for nearly an hour.

After comisserating with a few of my friends, I learned that unsolicited telemarketing has been a systemic problem for Sprint users and that the company does not act quickly enough to stop these calls from wasting your anytime minutes. (nor do they do anything about it once you've called in).

IMO, we need to regulate business advertisement e.g. posting *heavy* fines against companies that engage in unethical advertisement behavior-- (spam, telemarketing, posting of comments etc).

Replies: 1 Comment

Many of the spam companies are outside the reach of US laws.

The real problem is that idiot consumers buy stuff from spammers.

Spam works.

Dennis said @ 05/26/2004 04:34 PM PST