Howard continues to spam, Labor promises not to.
Oct 6, 2004 Australia, Current Events, Internet, Spam
Fed: Labor vows not to employ Libs ‘arrogant’ phone spam. (ZDNet Australia / AAP)
Our spam loving friends at the Liberal party are at it again, but this time using the phone instead of email. They’re using automated technology to dial numbers within marginal seats and play a recorded message from John Howard or Peter Costello such as:
“Hello, this is John Howard. I’ve taken the unusual step of contacting you with this recorded message to support your local Liberal candidate in Bowman.” quoted from SBS News.
In response to this Mark Arbib of the NSW Labor party said:
“It is arrogant and insensitive to use computers to make thousands of calls delivering recorded messages. Voters who are upset by this use of American-style political campaigning techniques will have the opportunity on Saturday to leave their own message at polling booths for John Howard. Labor’s approach is not to spam voters or to use recorded messages to try and get their votes. People deserve a greater level of respect than that.”
Indeed. Nobody likes like telemarketing calls, especially when they’re a recorded message from John Howard, or even John Howard calling personally.