Whatever party this is by, this might just annoy people so that they won’t want into either category, thus becoming a non-voter – which benefits nobody.
This should be illegal, >99% of people hate getting such messages unsolicited (the rest are the ones sending them). However, “rule of law” is a joke in several ways in this two-party system.
This is definitely not a legitimate message. The site doesn’t exist and the Democrats don’t send messages like that. The closest they get is linking a headline of Trump doing something stupid and saying “donate now to stop Trump.”
I meant “party” as in “entity”, not neccessarily DEM or GOP. The only thing this text would achieve is to annoy people. If it’s not in fact a mass-sent message, it definitely fooled me but it still illustrates my main point as a caricature.
The site doesn’t exist
Maybe not now (not clicking that) but for the record, archive.org does have entries for training-dems.us (with no known subpages) and the main page, as of May 15, redirects to traindemocrats.org, possibly without their consent. No idea if either of these is officially affiliated with a US political party, or if they were set up as this screenshot started circulating.
Being a non-voter has always benefited Republicans over the last few decades.
This is why campaigns to suppress and reduce the voting population or the ability for people to vote are so effective for republicans. When you reduce the number of voters Republicans win, there is a bias towards Republicans being more willing to go out and vote and Democrats being less willing to.
All unsolicited contacts from these fucks should be illegal. If I want to hear what a candidate thinks about shit I’ll look them up myself. I don’t need my fucking phone blowing up for 6 months before an election.
I think they are skirting it. Visiting the site and interacting with it the intended way will DEFINITELY put one’s personal information into someone’s hands but the question is, are they doing so deceptively as far as US law is concerned? Depends on whether the sender is apparently impersonating an entoty, whether “status as a … voter” is a reserved government phrase and whether this qualifies as election misinformation. I’d guess probably not for all, so this text may very well be legal. And if the FTC/FTC cared enough, unsolicited political/commercial texts would have all been illegal regardless of any further malicious intent.
Only if the effect was party-agnostic. Since the message presents itself as if it comes from Democrat supporters, it may have that effect on Democrat voters - but I fail to see how a Republican voter seeing this will think “These Democrats are so annoying, I’m just going to not vote because they are so annoying”.
Whatever party this is by, this might just annoy people so that they won’t want into either category, thus becoming a non-voter – which benefits nobody.
This should be illegal, >99% of people hate getting such messages unsolicited (the rest are the ones sending them). However, “rule of law” is a joke in several ways in this two-party system.
This is definitely not a legitimate message. The site doesn’t exist and the Democrats don’t send messages like that. The closest they get is linking a headline of Trump doing something stupid and saying “donate now to stop Trump.”
I meant “party” as in “entity”, not neccessarily DEM or GOP. The only thing this text would achieve is to annoy people. If it’s not in fact a mass-sent message, it definitely fooled me but it still illustrates my main point as a caricature.
Maybe not now (not clicking that) but for the record, archive.org does have entries for training-dems.us (with no known subpages) and the main page, as of May 15, redirects to traindemocrats.org, possibly without their consent. No idea if either of these is officially affiliated with a US political party, or if they were set up as this screenshot started circulating.
Being a non-voter has always benefited Republicans over the last few decades.
This is why campaigns to suppress and reduce the voting population or the ability for people to vote are so effective for republicans. When you reduce the number of voters Republicans win, there is a bias towards Republicans being more willing to go out and vote and Democrats being less willing to.
All unsolicited contacts from these fucks should be illegal. If I want to hear what a candidate thinks about shit I’ll look them up myself. I don’t need my fucking phone blowing up for 6 months before an election.
I think sending people phishing links is illegal…
I think they are skirting it. Visiting the site and interacting with it the intended way will DEFINITELY put one’s personal information into someone’s hands but the question is, are they doing so deceptively as far as US law is concerned? Depends on whether the sender is apparently impersonating an entoty, whether “status as a … voter” is a reserved government phrase and whether this qualifies as election misinformation. I’d guess probably not for all, so this text may very well be legal. And if the FTC/FTC cared enough, unsolicited political/commercial texts would have all been illegal regardless of any further malicious intent.
Only if the effect was party-agnostic. Since the message presents itself as if it comes from Democrat supporters, it may have that effect on Democrat voters - but I fail to see how a Republican voter seeing this will think “These Democrats are so annoying, I’m just going to not vote because they are so annoying”.