[bryant]

Extreme is right; I can only imagine the waste of power. It's probably exponentially worse than the waste of gas by postal services for delivering junk mail.

Except I'm not sure there's anything that can be done about it in the US because of first amendment rights.

[freehorse]

People (or "people" aka bots) do not write bs because they can. They write because they are incetivised to do so.