Due to this dilemma, service providers developed technology to filter out the junk mail. This led to a lawsuit from the junk mail providers to the Internet service providers. The junk mail companies complained that their First Amendment rights of free speech was being violated. For the First Amendment purposes, the most important word in that sentence is Congress because speech is only protected against government action. Since the companies responsible for the junk mail could not prove that the abridging access to the Internet was really a government action, they lost the case.
Junk mail is a menace to all people with e-mail accounts.
I know that people with busy schedules do not want to take the time to delete all of the unwanted messages they receive a day. There will always be junk mail working its way to your account no matter what barriers are built by the Internet service provider. Those were a few of the positives and negatives about Internet use. There is still a question of where the Internet is headed. I have read certain articles talking about how the SuperNet will be the next step up for the future with faster loading times and service.