Cyberspace Sovereignty by Binxing Fang

Author:Binxing Fang
Language: eng
Format: epub, pdf
Publisher: Springer Singapore, Singapore

7.22 Fighting the Spread of Spam

In 2009, the Australian Communications and Media Administration filed a lawsuit against a man named Lance Thomas Atkinson who sent a large number of spam messages of advertisements of herbal products, watches and the like. The Brisbane Federal Court of Australia fined the man 210,000 Australian dollars and forbade him to take the initiative to send commercial e-mail in the next seven years.143

Atkinson and his brother in New Zealand operated a website that had businesses in the US, Australia, New Zealand, China, India, Russia and Canada. It was estimated that as many as one-third of the world’s spam messages were likely to be related to the brothers. In 14 months, there had been 61 days leading the sending of spam. They also hired people to send billions of spam messages every day, selling aphrodisiacs, diet pills and prescription drugs.144 The man had previously admitted that he had been involved in an international spam network that could send 10 billion spam messages in one day, and the inspecting authorities accused him of being the master of the world’s largest known “spam gang”.

The Australian Communications and Media Administration filed a lawsuit against Atkinson under the Australian Anti-Spam Act, and the Australian citizens had previously filed more than 100,000 spam complaints. The US court also fined the Atkinson’s website 15.5 million dollars.

Regarding the penalty for spam, the civil liability stipulated in Australia is stringent. At the same time, the object of punishment includes not only their native people but also foreigners who send spam to Australia, showed that Australia exercises its cyberspace sovereignty.

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