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Is it normal for Americans to constantly receive spam sms?
Yes, for political spam because they exempted themselves from the law. They want participating in democracy to be as painful as possible, so they punish you for registering to vote like this.
Thankfully in my state you can at least register as “independent of party” and still participate in primary elections. That cuts down on the spam significantly.
Used to work but I'm an independent and this year I got dozens of texts for some reason...
As soon as i started applying for jobs they started coming in again. After 3 years without much if any.
Everyone sells your information. I've given up.
Elderly we helped would get 10+ a day sometimes.
Yes. I'm registered democrat, but I would occasionally get texts from republican incumbents that don't represent my district begging for money. Like how the fuck did you even get this number? I'm CONSTANTLY being spammed by democrats that represent other districts asking me for money. They were all incumbents, so I donated to the democratic socialists that were running against them in the primaries. Special "fuck you," goes out to Jenifer Rajkumar, I enjoyed donating every penny to David Orkin. Fuck you and your red dress.
Whoops, looks like thinking about those spam texts got me triggered.
Yeah its a poisoned medium for communication
Depends, used to get them fairly often, I don’t get them at all these days. I stoped giving my number out on signups unless it’s something where they actually might have a good reason to call me, like a doctors office or something.
Basically no laws, at least not enforceable ones, for having your number shared if you give it to someone. Companies and website will often ask for them as part of sign up, and then sell them off to data brokers for money. Cellphone carriers have been known to sell location data tied to phone numbers to data brokers as well. Lot of campaigns or local party organizations build volunteer and donor lists, and will share those between each other as well, makes it really frustrating to try and get involved with a campaign.
All of it results in a ton of spam, scams, and ads, only real solution Is to refuse to give out your phone number unless absolutely necessary, use temporary voip numbers when it’s insisted upon.
Not as much as phone calls