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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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[–] AfterOnions@lemmy.world 1 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

Are all political outreach campaigns compliant with the CAN-SPAM Act?

[–] finalarbiter@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 5 hours ago* (last edited 5 hours ago) (1 children)

The ideology you push isn't inherently compliant or not, that really makes no sense.

However, I want to be be abundantly clear: it doesn't really matter if you're breaking the law or not, what you've proposed is fucking annoying to people.

I, by virtue of having previously lived and been registered to vote in a swing state, am bombarded by anywhere from 10-30 phone calls and a few dozen texts at random jours every day by people like you who have supposedly good intentions. It wakes me up in the middle of the night and interrupts me at work. During election season, those numbers reach into the hundreds. There's no escape, and some days I can only use my phone in do not disturb mode, except then my family and friends can't get ahold of me. It's to the point where I'm strongly considering changing my number, despite the significant inconvenience that comes with that. That's what you are proposing doing to people. DON'T FUCKING DO THAT.

[–] AfterOnions@lemmy.world 1 points 5 hours ago

Why do so many campaigns use phone banking?