While at first blush the big news about this lawsuit is that Google is being sued for suppressing presidential candidate Tulsi Gabbard's campaign's ads, there is also a piece of the lawsuit where they are suing Google because (they claim) a disproportionate number of her campaign's email was being put in the Gmail spam folder. They talk about the opacity of how the spam filter works, etc...
Now, of course, years ago, when I was at MAPS, we dealt with several lawsuits from spammers about how unfair it was that they were being filtered because of the RBL, etc., etc., and they fairly roundly lost. This however is different, because we have a political candidate claiming that Google is suppressing *political* speech, the free pass for which is baked right into CAN-SPAM, as we all know only too well. Here is our plain English write up of it, which I doubt anyone here needs (the plain English part), but we also are hosting a full copy of the lawsuit, which is linked here as well: https://www.theinternetpatrol.com/presidential-candidate-tulsi-gabbard-sues-google-over-disabling-ads-and-going-to-the-spam-folder-full-text-of-lawsuit-included/ Anne Anne P. Mitchell, Attorney at Law Dean of Cybersecurity & Cyberlaw, Lincoln Law School of San Jose CEO/President, Institute for Social Internet Public Policy Author: Section 6 of the CAN-SPAM Act of 2003 (the Federal anti-spam law) Legislative Consultant GDPR, CCPA (CA) & CCDPA (CO) Compliance Consultant Board of Directors, Denver Internet Exchange Board of Directors, Asilomar Microcomputer Workshop Legal Counsel: The CyberGreen Institute Former Counsel: Mail Abuse Prevention System (MAPS) _______________________________________________ mailop mailing list mailop@mailop.org https://chilli.nosignal.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mailop
