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submitted 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) by AncientFutureNow@lemmy.world to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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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[-] bruhbeans@lemmy.ml 8 points 4 months ago

Are you responding literally "stop" or are you editorializing like "please stop for the love of Satan"? The former is supposed to be seen by the system and you're supposed yo be automatically unsubscribed. The latter goes to a person and that person may try to engage you. At least, when I've done text-banking, that's how it worked. A less reputable system may try to engage you regardless. If you get sent to a person it's also up to the person to decide if and how they talk to you. If I saw something that made it clear the person didn't want to talk, I would tell the system to unsub them, others might try to be persistent.

[-] howlingecko@sh.itjust.works 3 points 4 months ago

That’s how it SHOULD work. But I’ve replied with just stop or unsubscribe depending on their chosen system’s keyword. I just received a nearly identical message from a different number. Maybe Nancy Pelosi and Hakeem Jeffries were just determined at that time, but it definitely wasn’t handled the way it should have been.

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