Dan GillmorJun 24, 2023

Having donated even once to a Democratic candidate or progressive cause, you are punished with a lifetime of incessant spam.

My response: I've crafted email filters that block mail from companies that candidates and causes hire to do their email campaigns.

This means I probably block some worthy things I might actually want to see.

So everyone loses, because political spammers don't value the online community.

Show threadAmadi Lovelace
@dangillmor this is another reason why we need federal campaigns to be publicly funded. The constant need to fundraise and dial for dollars and spam for dollars and text for dollars and do inane face to face events makes enemies out of elected officials for doing what the campaigning part of our system demands of them.
Jun 25, 2023 at 1:11amWeb
Show threadMab_813Jun 28, 2023

@amaditalks @dangillmor

Yes. I'm Austrian and I never get this kind of e-mails. I guess it's because of federal funding of parties, but also GDPR.

Show threadAmadi LovelaceJun 28, 2023
@Mab_813 I don’t think the GDPR would apply because we get these emails because we have an existing financial relationship with the underlying entity that is sending them.
Show threadMab_813Jun 29, 2023

@amaditalks

In my experience, companies and political parties ask me for my consent before they send me newsletters or unsolicited e-mails, even if I'm already a customer. I assumed the reason for this is GDPR - but maybe it's cultural and GDPR has changed the culture and how people think about using data like mail adresses.
Also with companies / parties / candidates not allowed to sell or pass on my mail adress, it ends up with less people in general.