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I do not live or vote in the US, I am not an US citizen, I am actually barely aware of US politics.

A few years ago my GMail mailbox started to be flooded by US politics related SPAM or SCAM (hard to know sometimes), my guess is 90% of those were democrats (a lot from from "Nancy Pelosi").

Despite flagging those emails as SPAM in GMail they wouldn't go away and I had to create rules get rid of those.

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For a period Google was basically ignoring individual users requests for direct actions but calculating an overall rate for an organization as long as the organization followed all sorts of laws, etiquettes and google rules and stayed above some threshold..

A big part of their revenue was from email signups that were usually ultimately obnoxious and google couldn't really verify if a email address was legitimately signed up or slammed.

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