cross-posted from: https://programming.dev/post/36488526
My understanding from recent reporting is that Gmail’s spam filters routinely block messages from reaching consumers when those messages come from Republican senders but fail to block similar messages sent by Democrats. Indeed, according to recent reporting, Alphabet has “been caught this summer flagging Republican fundraising emails as ‘dangerous’ spam— keeping them from hitting Gmail users’ inboxes—while leaving similar solicitations from Democrats untouched….” Likewise, commenters on the FTC’s request for information regarding Technology Platform Censorship have complained that Google is using a partisan approach in administering its spam filters. And finally, as you know, similar concerns have resulted in ongoing litigation against Google in other settings.
Maybe Republicans should stop trying to scam us, then.
Then what would make them Republicans? Just the bigotry?
Yeah, like in the good ol’ days
I want to live in that world!
I’ve had about enough of these fascist snowflakes.
If their staff weren’t incompetent and understand SPF records, DKIM and DMARC, they wouldn’t be flagged as spam. But when morons who don’t understand the tech fail at using it, it’s not the systems fault for identifying it as garbage. Source- me, 25 years supporting email systems.
PSA: Don’t use gmail. Sure, it is a good email and is free. And you may not care about privacy, even though you should. But the bigger danger is your e-mail being tied to your wider google and youtube account. Get banned for spamming youtube live chat, or writing “inappropriate” comment, or maybe for using ad-blocker in the future, and you can say goodbeye not just to your youtube account, but emails and drive data. This has already happend in the past, when youtube algorithm evaluated votening in livestream chat by sending 1 or 2 as spam and banned peoples entire google accounts.
This isn’t about Republican officials using Gmail, it’s about Republicans targeting Gmail addresses.
If you don’t want to be identified as spam, don’t send spammy content. Really that simple.
I am not telling that to republican politicians. There are clearly a lot of people who use gmail for republicans to care about it and I have seen people here worried gmail would stop respecting their filter settings. So I advise them to stop using gmail.
Gotta say paying a little bit for my own domain and thus private email service is amazing. So so soooo much less spam and it’s super easy to create a disposable address that can get mail from potential spammers.
Lol. Send me the email. I’m not just going to filter it. Y’all are so bad at email I could reply all and tank your email chain with an all hands message of my asshole. Seriously, Republicans what even is this? If you don’t want it marked as spam don’t send it to people who don’t want and didn’t ask for it.
Only a few years since “but her emails[sic]” and now senators are conducting official business on a pubcloud mail provider.
About half the business related emails I get from my Secretary of State wouldn’t pass a spam filter. Their braynes are fucked.
Let’s be honest: if Google’s spam filters were biased they’d be filtering and suppressing Democrat emails, not Republican ones.
