Farcically, I, who has never knowingly given my phone number to D's, am getting spam texts 10x/day *now that the election is over*, asking for $ to save Social Security & end corruption at SCOTUS.
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Farcically, I, who has never knowingly given my phone number to D's, am getting spam texts 10x/day *now that the election is over*, asking for $ to save Social Security & end corruption at SCOTUS. The gallowest laugh
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They kept doing it and I kept trying to unsubscribe and they kept doing it and eventually this happened:
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@[email protected] that should be a requirement for all messages: STOP to unsubscribe, QUIT GRIFTING to unsubscribe from all. But no.
Some database that Dems use has me in there with my partner’s number, so she frequently gets annoying texts that should be annoying me instead. Once she actually got a phone call from a state legislature who’s supported the industry-written Bad Washington Privacy Act who was looking for me … we all (including him) had a good laugh about it and agreed that this showed how much stronger legislation was needed … but of course he didn’t change his position and still supported the Bad Washington Privacy Act -
@jdp23 Ah, good call. I also get marketing sorts of texts meant for household members. Maybe this is one of their faults!
PS, if you want them to listen to you about that privacy bill, there's a survey link in the message I posted where I'm quite sure they're taking feedback on board
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@[email protected] yeah right, I’m sure that survey will have an impact. Groups like that are total bottom feeders, and some of them are actually right-wing grifters pretending to be dem grifters.
The Bad Washington Privacy Act is long gone - we stopped it four times in a row, despite intense lobbying from MS and Amazon who are not without influence here in Washington. It got pretty ugly: disinfo from a DC-based industry-funded “privacy” organization, legislative maneuvers that even experienced people had never seen before, a state senator who represented Amazon holding a bill with money for eviction prevention hostage to try to force it through … good times. But eventually they gave up, and in 2023 we passed a very strong health data privacy bill instead. Yay! Unfortunately will this was happening several other states passed versions of the bill, including the Even Worse Virginia Privacy Act and the Slightly Better But Still Not Good Colorado Privacy Act. More positively the legislator who called my partner by mistake helped pass the Shield Law which means WA companies can’t share health or location data with law enforcement in states that criminalize abortion or gender-affirming health care. Grassroots activism FTW!
