On Friday, the Virginia Supreme Court ruled that a law to outlaw spam sending to email clients was unlawful. Included in this law was a ban to political messages, which is one of the reasons this law was overturned. The Supreme court said, "The law doesn't make any distinction between e-mails or types of speech, and so it was unconstitutional." This law supposedly violates the freedom of speech outlined in the constitution. However, several issues I saw were,
1) Is it really someone's right of speech to send unwanted emails that don't display any opinionated message but advertise?
2) Is the right to personal property, maybe including email, to be overruled by the person who writes the spam's freedom of speech?
3) Is it lawful to get e-mail addresses from people that do not want spam? People do not want spam in their inboxes, and is violating their space not part of the agreement in a privacy policy between the e-mail client and the user?
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