The EFF board chairman tells how to lay hand to your rights among the inbox clutter. It's been called spam, junk email, and bulk email. Whatever you call it, your email inbox is probably full of it. But although a crowded inbox can be annoying, the problems surrounding spam go much deeper. As chairman of the board at the Electronic Frontier Foundation , Brad Templeton knows a thing or two about spam.
Email is speech.
We've got to protect it. The problem is, there are three fundamental rights that come into collision here. The first is freedom of speech. Email is speech. It will probably be the most important form of interpersonal communication in the future, so we've got to protect it.