---
date: '2017-05-23'
title: 'GOP advances plan for ring-free voicemail spam'
description: "It's like a U2 album release — but for annoying political crap."
tags: ['politics', 'privacy']
---

**[Recode:](https://www.recode.net/2017/5/23/15681158/political-campaign-robocall-ringless-voicemail-without-ringing-cellphone-republican)**

> The GOP's leading campaign and fundraising arm, the Republican National Committee, has quietly thrown its support behind a proposal at the Federal Communications Commission that would pave the way for marketers to auto-dial consumers' cellphones and leave them prerecorded voicemail messages — all without ever causing their devices to ring.<!-- excerpt -->

It's like a U2 album release — but for annoying political crap.
