Minutes before Kamala Harris made a last-minute look throughout this weekend’s SNL cold open, Maya Rudolph as Harris pretended that she will text every citizen in the United States– a dig, naturally, at the flood of texts we’re all getting sent out to our phones from and on behalf of the governmental projects.
I do not understand if it’s simply me, however it seems like the barrage of day-to-day spammy text from both projects is even worse than ever. I’ve currently voted, however even that hasn’t spared me from the distressingly immediate and progressively unhinged text missives advising me that THIS IS THE MOST IMPORTANT ELECTION OF OUR LIFETIME! That DEMOCRACY IS ON THE BALLOT which DONALD TRUMP WANTS TO JAIL YOUR GRANDMA. Or that KAMALA HARRIS WILL APPOINT TERRORISTS TO HER CABINET. According to the 800,000 text messages sent out to me every day, the only thing I have to do to make it all much better is to CLICK HERE TO DONATE.
This is among lots of factors, by the method, why my mobile phone’s stock messages app is not the messenger I utilize on the everyday. The information brokers who remain in business of purchasing and offering our individual details without our understanding are genuinely repugnant, pesky people, however that’s a tirade for another time.
Could I ask for, no matter which side wins, that political fundraising text be disallowed?
— Jared Isaacman (@rookisaacman) October 25, 2024
Is anybody else getting an INSUFFERABLE quantity of political text ?!?! Make it stop
— KB (@literallyKB) October 31, 2024
The concern of the minute: What, if anything, can be done about the political project texts?
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Well, there’s great and problem.
Let’s begin with the bad news. There’s not a lot you can do. Having stated that, you’re not absolutely out of luck if you’re tired of all the texts. Let’s begin with the low-hanging fruit:
Texting “STOP” in all caps in reaction to these texts can be taken as an opt-out command by the automated systems sending out these messages. A few of the texts even welcome you to do so. What’s more, a “STOP” command may (and I worry mayerase your number from the sender’s database. You can likewise attempt this:
“The other thing that folks can do if they get undesirable text is they can forward those spam text to the Federal Communications Commission,” John Verdi, the senior vice president at the Future Privacy Forum, informed a regional Chicago news station. The method to do that is by forwarding the text to the text brief code 7726,