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    How about this for a headline? “Miami Herald: Records suggest that Ron
   DeSantis paid campaign workers to spam cell phones with political ads to
   avoid Federal Communications Commission regulations over automated text
                                  messaging”

So this happened:

[Note how it fits perfectly on the iPhone screen. I wonder how much effort
went into ensuring that?] [1]


It's not the content I necessarily object to—it's the fact that it happened
[2] that I object to. Given that politicians write the law, of course they
also exempt themselves from the law [3].

Grrrrrrrrr …

[1] gopher://gopher.conman.org/IPhlog:2018/10/31/spam.png
[2] https://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/politics/fl-ne-candidates-texting-voters-20181016-story.html
[3] https://www.nevadaappeal.com/news/government/politicians-exempt-from-do-not-call-law/

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