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Good. Do this for political spam next.
by bobthepanda 4y ago
Good. Do this for political spam next.
- olliej 4y agoFor serious the last Election Day resulted in me getting a shit ton of BS text messages, all structurally the same, and all without any valid contact information.
- kibwen 4y agoI got daily spam texts from the republican party telling me how John Fetterman was going to doom Pennsylvania to communism. I live in Massachusetts, assholes!
- olliej 4y agoI got essentially the same thing for both parties - stylistically: identical hyperventilating, identical style, identical badly cropped photos, and url to a path inside an otherwise empty godaddy domain, redirecting to act blue fundraising in some cases similar republican ones in others. It was very clear that one organization was doing both sides
- rqtwteye 4y agoI responded to a Democrat text that I would never ever vote democrat again if this didn’t stop. It stopped.
- CamperBob2 4y agoKeeping in mind that "Joe jobs" are not exactly unheard-of in politics, of course.
- czx4f4bd 4y agoTIL https://www.pcmag.com/encyclopedia/term/joe-job https://www.pcmag.com/encyclopedia/term/joe-job
- bobmaxup 4y agoThis whole ecosystem is in the process of changing. Here is a tidbit of insight: https://support.twilio.com/hc/en-us/articles/4405850570267-Nonprofit-and-Government-Guide-to-A2P-10DLC-Text-Messaging https://support.twilio.com/hc/en-us/articles/4405850570267-N...
- bobthepanda 4y agoHm. I’m skeptical that an industry-provided solution is going to solve spam; I’ll believe it when I see it.