Save us from the robots
As the election draws nearer, any eligible voter has felt the barrage of messages, questionnaires and calls for donations. But these calls aren’t being made just by pesky campaign workers, but also by our robotic brethren in the form of spam programs. Like John Connor battled the terminators to save us from a world overrun by Arnold Schwarzenegger, we eligible voters have to find a way to overcome this robo-menace. Robocalls – phone programs that send automated messages – are being abused by both political parties to spread their messages with varying degrees of truth and propaganda. Indiana is one of three states that has banned this practice completely, but is a hard law to enforce because voters often don’t know that it’s against the law and don’t report it. Free speech shouldn’t apply to automatic messages such as these if they invade privacy and force themselves on the listener. It’s not free speech if someone takes a pamphlet, ties it to a brick and throws it through your window. Why should robocalls be considered different?
