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An example of the Scunthorpe problem in Wikipedia because of a regular expression identifying "cunt" in the username. The Scunthorpe problem is the unintentional blocking of online content by a spam filter or search engine because their text contains a string (or substring) of letters that appear to have an obscene or otherwise unacceptable meaning.
As of late 2006, CAN-SPAM has been all but ignored by spammers. A review of spam levels in October 2006 estimated that 75% of all email messages were spam, and the number of spam emails complying with the requirements of the law were estimated to be 0.27% of all spam emails. As of 2010, about 90% of email was spam. [39] [40]
Pinterest: pinterest.com: pinterest.com: Image sharing: Multilingual: March 2017–present [33] Blocked SoundCloud: SoundCloud.com SoundCloud.com Music streaming Multilingual September 2013–present [34] Blocked Signal Private Messenger: signal.org signal.org Instant messaging: Multilingual March 16, 2021 – present [35] Blocked Dropbox ...
Unsolicited Bulk Email (Spam) AOL protects its users by strictly limiting who can bulk send email to its users. Info about AOL's spam policy, including the ability to report abuse and resources for email senders who are being blocked by AOL, can be found by going to the Postmaster info page .
None (loosely; Movimento Brasileiro de Combate ao Spam) [6] Bulgaria: The Law of electronic commerce (2006) Чл.5,6: December 26, 2006 [7] Canada: Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act 2000 (PIPEDA) [8] Canada: Fighting Internet and Wireless Spam Act 2010 [9] Canada: Canada's Anti-Spam Legislation 2014 (CASL) [10] China
Shadow banning, also called stealth banning, hell banning, ghost banning, and comment ghosting, is the practice of blocking or partially blocking a user or the user's content from some areas of an online community in such a way that the ban is not readily apparent to the user, regardless of whether the action is taken by an individual or an algorithm.
In many jurisdictions there are anti-spam laws in place that restrict the harvesting or use of email addresses. [original research?In Australia, the creation or use of email-address harvesting programs (address harvesting software) is illegal, according to the 2003 anti-spam legislation, only if it is intended to use the email-address harvesting programs to send unsolicited commercial email.
Spam reporting, more properly called abuse reporting, is the action of designating electronic messages as abusive for reporting to an authority (e.g. an email administrator) so that they can be dealt with. Reported messages can be email messages, blog comments, or any kind of spam.