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SUPPORT FOR ANTI-SPAM LEGISLATION
WHEREAS, access to the Internet is being threatened by the unbridled growth of commercial
spam Email; and
WHEREAS, the constitutional safeguards which prohibit government prior censorship of the mail
prevents local governments from filtering e-mails because of the difficulty of selectively identifying
commercial E-mails; and
WHEREAS, at the same time the tremendous growth in spam traffic threatens the very purpose of
free exchange of information and knowledge which the Internet affords, because of the increasing
volume of commercial traffic; and
WHEREAS, several bill have been filed in the Congress to address this situation, including HR
1933 by Representative Zoe Lofgren from California,
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED that The United States Conference of Mayors
hereby condemns this commercial threat to the Internet and urges the Congress to pass legislation
to address this problem.
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