Re: Sued for spam filtering: Republican National Committee lawsuit against Google dismissed [US/CA]

On Sun, 04 Aug 2024 06:33:38 +0200
Andrzej Adam Filip <anfi@onet.eu> wrote:

https://www.reuters.com/legal/transactional/google-defeats-rnc-lawsuit-claiming-email-spam-filters-harmed-republican-2024-07-31/

August 1, 2024
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July 31 (Reuters) - A U.S. judge has thrown out a Republican National
Committee lawsuit accusing Alphabet's Google of *intentionally*
misdirecting the political party's email messages to users' spam
folders.
U.S. District Judge Daniel Calabretta in Sacramento, California […]
While expressing some sympathy for the RNC's allegations, he said it
had not made an adequate case that Google violated California’s unfair
competition law. […]
Google in a statement said it welcomed the court's ruling. Google said
the dismissal followed a bipartisan Federal Election Commission
decision that found the company's email platform was not politically
biased. […]

It would interesting to find out what percentage of political
campaigning eMails get flagged as spam by Google's users.  My
guess is that users who flag political eMails as spam probably
mostly don't care whether it's a political party they favour
if they didn't consent to receiving it.  I would expect to see
some bias to just deleting-without-flagging from at least some
users the spam that promotes a political party they favour.

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