The worst part of spam is that it reduces the likelihood of the successful transmission of legitimate correspondence.   For example I just got an SC2 beta invite that was legit, but I almost deleted it right away because I was expecting phishing.

 This is an age of spam.    Needless complexity is everywhere, begging to be savaged with Occam's razor, but requiring great finesse so to extract the tumor and not the vital organs.

In the age of the streisand effect the only way to effectively censor something is to make it disappear in a crapflood of useless rubbish.    A frontal assault would only draw attention to it.