Article 62DWX US political campaign emails can bypass Google’s spam filters under a newly approved pilot project

US political campaign emails can bypass Google’s spam filters under a newly approved pilot project

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Thom Holwerda
from OSnews on (#62DWX)

Federal election regulators voted Thursday to allow Google to proceed with a plan to make it easier for campaign emails to bypass spam filters.

Google's proposal to run a pilot project changing the filters for political emails came after intense Republican criticism that spam filters were biased against conservatives, a charge the tech giant denies. In a sign of public disgust with spam, the Federal Election Commission received thousands of public comments urging it to deny the request.

But a majority of the six-member commission decided that Google's project did not constitute an improper in-kind political contribution that would violate federal campaign finance laws.

This reminds me of Twitter admitting it won't ban nazis because that would mean banning accounts of Republican politicians. I remember the days being biased against nazis was a good thing. Times sure do change.

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