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by itsdrewmiller 620 days ago
Neither of those laws mention political campaigns at all - both laws are directed at commercial activity.
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Exactly. They specifically omit political campaigns so that they aren't covered.
You could say the same about emails between friends or emails from churches - they don’t cover things that aren’t within the intended scope of the bill.
Are you being needlessly pedantic just to be contrarian?

But since we're being pedantic, it actually does apply to churches, depending on their legal structure.

And if you were actually following this at the time like I was, you would know that originally it was going to include political campaigns until a bunch of politicians said they wouldn't support it unless they got a carve out.