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So if I mail my senator a list of complaints every week, and the government bans any letters from my address reaching the senator, do you think my best course o
by cooper_ganglia 3y ago
So if I mail my senator a list of complaints every week, and the government bans any letters from my address reaching the senator, do you think my best course of action would be to simply throw my hands up in the air and say, "Well, it was unlikely he was going to read those letters anyway!" ?
- shortrounddev2 3y agoWould you be equally unhappy about the letters if you knew that they were skimmed over by an intern and replied to with a form response?
- cooper_ganglia 3y agoNo, even though the effect is largely the same, because the issue isn’t that the Senator isn’t reading the letters; I’d imagine that would be the case (that’s why you send it weekly, Shawshank Redemption-style. It’s about sending a message… Literally… lol) But in all seriousness, the issue to me is the ban on what communications may pass through to an elected official. If communications don’t reach them, that’s one thing (can’t expect every Tweet, letter, or phone call to be personally replied to, of course), but I don’t think politicians, police departments, or other places should be able to block U.S. citizens from viewing their own official communications through public channels, or attempting to contact their elected officials through those same public channels. I feel like that sets a bad precedent that I’d worry could be exploited by potential bad actors.