ENGL 006 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Big Bang, The Sketch, Telephone Consumer Protection Act Of 1991
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Questions 6-9 are based on the following passages. I know what your e-mail in-box looks like, and itisn"t pretty: a babble of come-ons and lies from huckstersand con artists. The crush of these mes-sages is now numbered in billions per day. It"s becoming a major systems and engineering and network problem, says one e-mail expert. Many people who hate spam assume that it is protected as free speech. The united states supreme court has previously ruled that individualsmay preserve a threshold of privacy. Nothing in the constitution compels us to listen to or view any unwantedcommunication, whatever its merit, wrote chief justice warren burger in a 1970 decision. We therefore categorically reject the argument that a vendor has a right to sendunwanted material into the home of another. with regard to a seemingly similar problem, the telephone. Questions 10-16 are based on the following passage. The following passage is adapted from a novel set in the early twentieth century.
