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Wednesday, January 24, 2007

Philipine Political Campaigns via Text

In an article from GMA News today there is reference to the desire for an exemption to text message legislation for political campaigning.

GMANews.TV - NTC seeks Comelec ruling on text campaigning - Nation - Official Website of GMA News and Public Affairs - Latest Philippine News

The article states what I believe to be the obvious:

"Our legal department will evaluate the circular on text spam. We will include campaigning through text if the Comelec says it is allowed. What we want is to regulate the text campaigns so that only those who want to receive will be sent," said Espinoza.
If you have collected someone's mobile number and they have given you permission to communicate with them via their mobile phone -no problem.

But this smacks of some bright-spark in the political arena trying to arrange a mass mobile SPAM attack... and they have the cheek to actual go to the regulator and ask permission.

This is almost as comical as the legislation in the US which actual tells marketers how they "CAN-SPAM" people legally.

What do you think?

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