It’s this kind of story that really annoys me about spam.
Yes it’s terrible.
Yes children should not be seeing it.
Yes ISPs, when asked, should have some kind of spam filtering available.
But, no, it’s not the ISPs fault. I get pissed off with marketing phone calls, but I don’t directly blame BT. Someone could just dial random numbers, which in effect is what a lot of spammers are doing.
Spam fighting is essential – I had to take some serious measures. But it’s legislation, and the prosecution of offenders that needs to happen. And if the US doesn’t take it seriously then we need to do so on it’s behalf.
Something pretty radical has to happen pretty fast. In the meantime children need to be educated about not passing out email addresses.