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How is using emails scraped for free off of facebook or Linkedin regulated by the FEC? (lemmy.world)

submitted 13 hours ago* (last edited 13 hours ago) by AfterOnions@lemmy.world to c/asklemmy@lemmy.world

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How are emails scraped from social media regulated by the FEC? This is not about paid email lists, it's about free targeted email addresses scrapped from social media. Paid email lists, as far as I know, are regulated by the FEC. Do you have to register with the election board and the FEC to do this?

Could you use scraped emails that you scraped for free to email people to donate to a political campaign, or phone a bank, or ask them to vote? You could target college cities, college-educated professionals, LGBTQ, Gen Z, minorities, and women.

Could you set up a free Google sheet to email an advert 2–3 times a week requesting people vote for a progressive pro-middle class, pro-union, pro-universal healthcare candidate and abolish ICE, and for an amendment to the US Constitution to ban corporate political free speech protections and ban all corporate lobbying of US Congress?

Will this be enough to have a noticeable effect on primaries this year? Could this be used to promote progressive candidates in the primaries? Could this be used to promote candidates in the general elections for the US Senate this year?

Do you have to register all of this with the FEC and local election board?

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[–] klymilark@herbicide.fallcounty.omg.lol 8 points 12 hours ago

Idk about the FEC, but I'd start by checking if this would fall under the CAN-SPAM act first, because the FCC will probably have something or other to say about it.

Here's a link for how it can apply to political campaigns: https://womencampaign.com/blog/navigating-can-spam-a-guide-for-political-campaigns/