On 23/12/20 6:24 am, Mark Fletcher via mailop wrote:
On Mon, Dec 21, 2020 at 9:53 PM Rob McEwen via mailop
<mailop@mailop.org <mailto:mailop@mailop.org>> wrote:
The moment "spam" gets away from "consent" and goes into "content"
(specifically *legal* content) - there are enormous problems -
because
it then becomes one person's often very subjective opinion - against
another' subjective opinion - about the content. So I 100% strongly
disagree with this opinion that Sendgrid should be the political
"thought police" for LEGAL content that is sent from their platform.
I've never understood this line of thinking. Sendgrid is not the
government. It's a company. If you disagree with whatever choices they
make about how they run their company, you can go somewhere else.
Mark
(whose service most definitely does not allow some types of legal content)
I've never understood your line of thinking Mark. The government,
through democratic majority (in some countries) decisionmaking, gets to
set the rules. But most civilized societies include anti-discrimination
rules. The majority of citizens may be women but discrimination against
men should not be allowed. Just because the majority in a few anglo
societies are white people, they should not be allowed to discriminate
against blacks.
Sure at an individual level, people should be able to choose however
they like. But at a company level, if you're your town's largest
employer, or if you in conjunction with a group of similar thinking
companies have significant power in the (say email provision) market
place, then you should not be discriminating.
It's not good enough for a few executives in a few companies to be the
"thought police" for a society. It's not good enough even for a majority
opinion to be the "thought police". Companies simply shouldn't
discriminate.
Alex
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