If AOL or another ISP decides that someone's a spammer, then no e-mail from that individual gets through. But there's a fundamental difficulty at the heart of the spam debate: The only one who knows what you want delivered in your inbox is you.

There will be no requirement, ever, for not-for-profits who deliver e-mail to AOL members to pay for e-mail certification and delivery.

AOL is essentially scanning e-mail for anything that's opposing their policy.

I never really gave it much thought about how I get my mail.

[The Electronic Frontier Foundation said it tried to persuade Sony to take the offending software off the discs.] We negotiated with them, ... and they agreed to do a lot of things. But they left undone a lot of things they said they wouldn't do.

The DMCA set up a system where, essentially, the government outsourced censorship of science,