Wow, I never thought someone would propose a viable way to make an utterly reviled nuisance - spam - something end-users might actually value. It might work, and it might provide solutions for folks like NSA as well. I couldn't think of a better way to sort out the wheat from the chaff.



So, if you "opt-in" you get paid. There's only one catch. I fear this will only accelerate the "chilling effect" on free speech. Almost all intelligent people - I'm obviously not one of them - have decided to flee the internet when it comes to sharing ideas. Very sad, but that is what spam and "information perverts" have done for us. This has left the internet overly represented by some of the most shallow, visceral and vile contributions imaginable.



So, I'd vote "yea" for this if we could figure out a way to keep it from merely accelerating the chilling effect on free speech. I'll have to chew on this for a bit.