Thread · 2 tweets · 11 Nov 2022

You're not wrong, there are plenty of ways in which blending technosocial powers like this can go really wrong 😂 But, to speculate, what if SMTP came with a provision that using it to send spam is a violation of terms that led to contractual fines?

I'm not interested in ToS being negotiated via protocol, but rather in imposing stronger protocolar constraints than the tech can on its own. (You might get your other wish! berjon.com/gpc-under-the-…)