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yaakov34 on July 6, 2011 | parent | context | favorite | on: Google Removes More Than 11 Million .co.cc Domains...

Please don't get the government involved in this. As much as I dislike eHow.com, I don't think they need to be dragged away in chains for "SEOing one's way to the top of search results, title 256, section D". That's not a good kind of call for the government to make.

asciilifeform on July 6, 2011 [–]

> I don't think they need to be dragged away in chains

Why not?

I would love to see spammers imprisoned or perhaps even publicly flogged. With hangings for repeat offenders.

The social cost of spammers (in terms of the time and money wasted on filtering attempts) may well be comparable to that of burglars.

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