Right-leaning political groups in the US have long accused Gmail of unfair left-leaning bias when it comes to spam filtering. As an example, the Republican National Committee alleged so in a law…
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As reported by Reuters and many others: "A U.S. judge has thrown out a Republican National Committee lawsuit accusing Alphabet's Google of intentionally misdirecting th…
In case you weren't able to check out the Valimail/NGP VAN webinar last week focusing on "Increasing Deliverability in the Political and Advocacy Spaces" last week …
Eric Goldman is Associate Dean of Research, Professor of Law and Co-Director, High Tech Law Institute, at Santa Clara University. And he blogs about legal stuff, often stuff rela…
Mike Masnick from Techdirt's got a scathing breakdown of how the judge just wasn't buying what the RNC was selling ; derisively detailing their failure to prove Google bi…
Remember that the RNC had sued Google , alleging that RNC emails were being unfairly dropped into Gmail spam folders due to political animus on the part of Google? Well, so far,…
Are political messages exempt from the requirements of the Telephone Consumer Protection Act? As the FCC explains , while campaigns are exempt from the "do not call" li…
Do you receive political spam? Political spam happens in the US, seemingly regardless of party, but it is not something universally engaged in, nor do I think that it is somethin…
Mike Scarcella, reporting for Reuters : Google has hired law firm Perkins Coie to help defend it against the RNC's spam filtering lawsuit . "While Perkins long has provi…
Will Easton is an expert email strategist and nonprofit fundraiser, and the webmaster of ethicalemail.org and you should connect with him on LinkedIn . Today's topic? The de…
Today’s guest post comes from my colleague Jennifer Nespola Lantz, VP of Industry Relations and Deliverability at Kickbox, keeping us updated on a potentially upcoming Gmail spam…
On Sunday, Gartner's Lydia Leong posted an excellent backgrounder on how the internet industry came to have mostly common acceptable use policies, the contractually-embedde…
I don't think there's actually a conspiracy to block the political email messages of any certain party. I see no clear data suggesting political bias in spam filtering de…
Need proof? It's all right here, in this Markup analysis of how Gmail is handling email messages from various 2020 US presidential candidates .
Tulsi Gabbard's presidential campaign is suing Google for various reasons, primarily for suspending her Google Adwords account. Not really email related, so not really my rea…
What was the most common term in spam in the run-up to the mid-term elections? "Trump," says Proofpoint .
I usually try to avoid getting too political around these parts, but this one I just can't resist. Turns out, then-Indiana governor Mike Pence was a big fan of using his pers…
ARS Technica reports on Trump minister of propaganda (I think that's his title) Sean Spicer and how he registered a handful of domains a few years ago with his still-current…
Just a few more days until the election, and then everybody can calm down and get back to their normal lives, I hope. Every time I read the Washington Post, I see another article…
