Online Anti-Stalking Group Backs ESPC in Registry Fight

The E-mail Sender and Provider Coalition is getting support from an online anti-cyber-stalking activist group in its fight against so-called child protection do-not-e-mail registries.

Jayne Hitchcock, founder of the all-volunteer group Working to Halt Online Abuse, or WHOA, said she is “appalled” by the child no-e-mail laws currently in effect in Utah and Michigan, and similar bills being considered in Iowa, Hawaii, Georgia, Connecticut and Wisconsin.

Hitchcock, who established WHOA in 1997 after being harassed online, said she plans to lobby against the state registries by writing letters to the appropriate state legislators and testifying against them in person if necessary.

Hitchcock is now among the critics