Thoughts on OnlyOnce:Drawing the Line
JD posted this a little earlier - http://onlyonce.blogs.com/onlyonce/2008/04/drawing-the-lin.html
The question is - “as certification/whitelist programs move towards purely quantitative models, is there still room for morality?”
But that’s just it, the quantitative models already have morality. It’s just that it’s the morality of the recipients that matters, not yours. If ‘spamming’ is something bad that someone does, and not something bad that someone says, then why should your opinion of the nature of the content matter?
Let me turn this on it’s side a bit. Would you not certify the Democrats’ mail servers if you were a Republican?
Keeping the end users safe and happy is the goal. It’s their morality that you have to divine and enforce. Otherwise, the Net Neutrality people and the EFF will want to have a few words with you re:censorship.
Sausage, Anonymous Contributor
