Telephone numbers are a synchronous interactive channel. If someone calls you to have a chat, they pay for your attention with their own. They can say somethi

Telephone numbers are a synchronous interactive channel. If someone calls you to have a chat, they pay for your attention with their own. They can say something to you, and you can in turn say something back to them. Robocalls shove someone else's voice into your ear, without offering you an ear in return. They signal a synchronous communication, and then reneg on that promise with a spammed asynchronous message. "Political speech" is the same as every other kind of speech. There should be no exemptions for policy just because someone running for office is involved. They have the same duty of courtesy as everyone else, and we have the same right to block our ears from their spam messages as businesses and scams.