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is my instinct here outdated/inapplicable?
Yes.
It's so cheap to send SMS messages, and you don't pay for undeliverable messages, so they can just send to random numbers.
They also receive deliverability responses for each number. So they know whether a phone received the message whether or not you reply.
Finally, if you reply STOP you're unlikely to fit their demographic very well anyway. As in... they're not trying to reach the type of people who will actively try to avoid receiving these messages.
That said, there's probably no point replying STOP because most firms just wont honor it in the long term. As in they might not message you for the remainder of that particular messaging project (campaign), but they'll just start a new campaign tomorrow with a new sender and no "STOP" requests.
It's not like you can even use Do Not Call features on this anyway, political stuff is exempt (though if it's fraudulent that's still bitter tampering/intimidation etc.).
I would be afraid its a trap, like clicking the link might add me to a radical MAGA hit-list or something.
Yeah political messages aren't covered under antispam laws, so definitely don't send a stop message. You'll immediately get messages from a bunch of other sources now that they have you.
welcome to the election season in the United States.
I keep getting texts from Donald for some reason
I'm getting both! And I've never been a centrist in my life!
This is what dying of cringe in text message format looks like.
Look, no campaign wants to annoy voters but also they want everyone to be contacted. Just respond with "STOP" and it will stop. Unfortunately, every campaign buys your data so nearly ever campaign will send you a text.
Also, they use various services to send these texts so each the numbers sent from will change so you can't just block them.
Your instinct is wrong. If you want them to stop, you have to tell them to stop.
Yes, they will add you to other phone lists, but I think they'll do that whether you text STOP or not. Also, it takes like 5 seconds.
Yes ... Get used to it
Political messages also are allowed to circumvent the CAN-SPAM act and other messaging regulations. I have plans to just leave my phone in airplane mode until mid-November. Sure, people may think I died, but at least I'll have peace.
They (politicos) argue it's necessary to get the word out, one party in particular has a habit of sourcing their messaging through various vendors that may or may not follow the rules.
Legally, they must honor stop. They can be reported and fined too.
...of course in real life, it's super hard to stop all this trash messaging nobody wants. Wonder how much carbon this spamming generates.
It's still spam and I'll report it and block the number every time.
Not a lot of carbon, SMS messages are very energy/resource efficient. The more direct alternative would be flyers and mail letters, which create more carbon mainly due to paper use and also cause pollution.
Agreed there is always a more, and really want all paper spam to stop immediately. Disagree on the impact of mass-messaging at a nation scale.
Every SMS will wake a phone and keep it active for 10-20 seconds, if background processes firing don't keep it awake longer. This robs every texted phone of battery wear and flash wear, as well as using energy that will have to be recharged. (Arguably, pointless app updates to manipulate review systems are an even bigger energy drain here. Or how carriers put cheaper plans on weaker bands, causing the modem to have to yell louder.)
The messages are in the control channel through the cell network, and the network must schedule them inside the management traffic. Probably less of a power hit here, but still a hit. There's power running the machines sending the messages, and the microscopic hit from always on network hardware along the whole path. Individually, it's all noise. Collectively, it's going to be quantifiable power use.
