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[–] 27 points 8 months ago* (3 children)

Don't forget about CAN-SPAM! (which honestly, given it's arguably a triple entendre, is hilarious)

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  • [–] 14 points 8 months ago (2 children)

    Controlling the Assault of Non-Solicited Pornography And Marketing

    Amazing. They actually integrated the hyphen into the acronym. But alas...

    The CAN-SPAM Act is occasionally referred to by critics as the "You-Can-Spam" Act because the bill fails to prohibit many types of e-mail spam and preempts some state laws that would otherwise have provided victims with practical means of redress.

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  • [–] 15 points 8 months ago* (1 child)

    Exactly where the arguable triple entendre comes in!

    • "Can spam" as in "put spam in the garbage can".
    • "Can Spam" as in the literal canned meat product Spam that Internet spam derives its name from.
    • And now the third: "can spam" as in "you're allowed to spam because this law sucks".
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  • [–] 4 points 8 months ago

    OK, now I get it. My brain was too lazy to even try to decipher "triple entendre".

    I'm still amazed by the hyphen. Is there a profession of literal wordsmith that comes up with such things? Probably got fired by DOGE.

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