Even the EFF thinks anti-GMail legislation is misguided
When the Electronic Frontier Foundation, the watchdog for Net privacy, finds that proposed legislation against a new offering -- in this case, Google's GMail service -- is bad law, you have to sit up and take notice. Note that EFF is not pro-GMail in any way. But the cure, in this case, is worse than the problems they see with the service.
EFF: Deep Links
CNET's Declan McCullagh this week picked apart the misguided Gmail bill introduced before the California legislature by State Senator Liz Figueroa (D-Freemont). The upshot? The bill is so broadly written, it would do things like "make it illegal for a California technology company to offer a 'family friendly' email service that discards messages with sexually explicit jokes," and "prohibit reviewing incoming messages to make clickable hyperlinks out of text phrases like 'www.news.com.'" And those are only two examples.