cross-posted from: https://programming.dev/post/36488526

Letter.

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.

They damn well better continue to filter spam as spam. Republican political campaign emails are more like a chain letter than an actual advertisement.

Yeah, like in the good ol' days

Back when men were men. And women couldn’t vote.

An overview of Gmail’s spam filters | Google Workspace Blog

We explain how Gmail spam filters work to help protect user inboxes and the steps senders can take to maximize delivery of their email messages.

Google Workspace Blog (workspace.google.com)

User feedback, such as when a user marks a certain email as spam or signals they want a sender’s emails in their inbox, is key to this filtering process, and our filters learn from user actions.

Maybe a lot of people just mark it as spam for some reason, wonder why that could be? Could it be because they simply don't like your emails and think they feel spammy? No, that couldn't be it, it has to be that the same company that kissed up to Trump also just hates republicans now for some reason! /s

cross-posted from: https://programming.dev/post/36488526

Letter.

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.

cross-posted from: https://programming.dev/post/36488526

Letter.

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.

cross-posted from: https://programming.dev/post/36488526

Letter.

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.

They damn well better continue to filter spam as spam. Republican political campaign emails are more like a chain letter than an actual advertisement.

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.

Those don’t guarantee delivery. A known spam domain or IP, among a few other things, can also result in blocks.

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.

cross-posted from: https://programming.dev/post/36488526

Letter.

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.

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.

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.

Its not even a good email provider. It has horribly aggressive filtering and logging in through a proper client like thunderbid/k9mail always requires tedious extra steps.

I like the "tags instead of folders" approach though. It's been a while since I checked; can a normal IMAP-based account + email client like Thunderbird do that these days?

Article says similar spam from Dems got through.

.. doesn't it say Republicans claim similar spam from Democrats got through?

My main takeaway is the Republicans want to block Democrat messaging, and via projection, assume Google is doing the reverse.