Originally published at: RNC's Ronna McDaniel wants to sue Google because people mark GOP junk mail as "spam" | Boing Boing
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Isn’t this a solution in search of a problem?
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They always stop just short of analyzing the issue when it meets their message goals. History is going to be so unkind to them. So sad, of course.
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I hope we get to that point.
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You are today’s master of understatement.
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Well, she certainly has the classic spammer mindset of “Yes, but MY message is Really Important, so it should be treated specially.” Or, more succinctly, “It’s not spam when I do it.”
The conservative principle that businesses should be allowed to run themselves free of government interference often seems to take a back seat to the axiom that “Nothing must prevent our messages from reaching the voters! (even if such messages are deceitful, dangerous or, well, spam)”. Just one more instance of their noted philosophical flexibility, I guess.
I’d be sort of entertained if they did sue Google, because Google has deep enough pockets to defend themselves in court, and a court case might well establish a precedent that the RNC wouldn’t like. It’s possible that the RNC has already figured this out, which is why they’re just talking about maybe suing Google rather than actually doing it.
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“We are very seriously considering”
Translation: We’re never going to do this but want to crank up the outrage machine for some free advertising to get the chumps motivated to vote.
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They should count themselves lucky there’s only a “spam” filter. If there was a “dogshit” filter or a “fuck-off-out-of-my-email-you-grifting-toerags” filter, that would be the one I’d employ.
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Go for it, Ronna;
DO fuck around, DO find out.
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Provided civilization lasts long enough for there to be a history. I am not overly optimistic.
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Do you think we could get Google to pipe all of their BS directly to dev/null?
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Just taking a wild guess here, but …
I do wonder if they’d get flagged as spam less often if they didn’t sell their lists all over the place? Bear in mind that some of those addresses are spam traps and when one of those gets bombed the source goes on blacklists all over the world.
Oh, and by the way: the RNC lists were polluted from the beginning. We maintain some spam traps and can trace spam (including LOTS of Republican campaign begging spam from every State in the USA) back to its origins and often through its chain of handlers.
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They’re still looking for a halfway competent lawyer to file the suit.
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They can clean up their act with the paper mail, too.
I’m thinking what happened is that I share part of my name with a family member (in another state) who is more (if not much more) likely to oblige. I finally noticed they weren’t quite using my full name, but it could’ve been theirs.
ETA: A day later, as if on cue. That makes 4 in 2 weeks. (Before that, Turning Point was the repeat offender.)
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Never mind small details like demography. How is it that we get begging letters for Herschel Walker addressed to a Montana destination?
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Sharp’s Corollary: Spammers attempt to re-define “spamming” as that which they do not do.
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I’m in Ohio and some time back I was getting begging letters for the campaign of some candidate in Texas who wears an eyepatch and still refers to himself by the military rank he used to hold.
It gets filed under political junk mail.
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I thought Google already caved on this.
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Sometimes it’s because someone’s nephew got the job.
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We’ve got some Hershel Walker yard signs near me in Maryland. I’m still trying to figure that one out….
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