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FTC Says Pornographic 'Spam' Must Be Labeled

Yahoo! News:

Pornographic "spam" e-mail will have to contain a warning on the subject line so Internet users can easily filter it out, the U.S. Federal Trade Commission said on Tuesday.

Starting May 19, sexually explicit e-mail will have to bear a label reading "SEXUALLY-EXPLICIT:" and the messages themselves will not be allowed to contain graphic material, the FTC said.

Outrage over unsolicited pornography and other forms of junk e-mail spurred Congress to pass the first nationwide anti-spam law last year, which required the FTC to develop labels for smut.

An FTC study released last spring found that 17 percent of pornographic offers contained images of nudity that appeared whether a recipient wanted to see them or not.

Posted by Timothy Fredel at April 14, 2004 09:30 PM | TrackBack
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