content regulation, was Verizon Policy Statement on Net Neutrality

[johnl at iecc.com (John R. Levine)]

>> With the "legal content" rule, I expect some bottom feeding bulk
>> mailers to sue claiming that their CAN SPAM compliant spam is legal,
>> therefore the providers can't block it.
>
> How would this legal environment be any different than the pre-Verizon
> network neutrality rules for network management of SPAM?

Until yesterday, there were no network neutrality rules, not for spam or 
for anything else.

R's,
John