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Privacy has become a very important issue in modern society, with companies and governments constantly abusing their power, more and more people are waking up to the importance of digital privacy.

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I live in the PNW. Every election cycle I get massive amounts of Arizona conservative text spam. How do I make it stop? (lemmy.world)

submitted 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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It all comes from Arizona. Ive never been to Arizona. My phone number isnt anywhere near Arizona. One year, I replied STOP to every text. Nothing stopped. Now I just cuss them out and block them, but it still persists. I wrote an email to the Arizona Republican's main office and demanded my number be removed from thier canvassing. Crickets. More spam. 3 today alone. I am so tired of this shit. It doesnt help that I think conservatives are pieces of shit and I am a member of a marginalized community that they are targeting with hate and discriminative laws.

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (5 children)

It doesnt help that I think conservatives are pieces of shit and I am a member of a marginalized community that they are targeting with hate and discriminative laws.

Stop infecting every single Lemmy community with freaking politics. There's nothing good in it.

Speaking of your question, it looks like there's a bad actor. Spamming isn't something a serious political organization would do. I think you should change your phone number.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Spamming isn't something a serious political organization would do.

They already said it's from conservatives, no need to be redundant.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

This wasn't needed nor called for.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 2 months ago

If answering the user's question isn't called for nowadays, I think we need to completely rebuild English so the words mean what they're supposed to mean.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

Bruh if conservatives just stop being a threat to democracy we will start talking about them, ez

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Why open a post mentioning a political party if you’re going to be mad that it’s about politics?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Because the user wants help on how to stop the spam. You toxic people won't understand that. I argued about the inclusion of politics because it's not allowed in this community and if everyone breaks the rule, it will stop working and the community will turn into a political junkyard.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Sir, you may want to go back to Twitter or Reddit.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 months ago

Lol why? There's a lot of politics there