{"id":91445,"date":"2013-11-10T14:39:05","date_gmt":"2013-11-10T12:39:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=91445"},"modified":"2013-11-11T08:42:32","modified_gmt":"2013-11-11T06:42:32","slug":"da-sms-email-spam-backlash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/internet\/91445-da-sms-email-spam-backlash.html","title":{"rendered":"DA SMS, email spam backlash"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Democratic Alliance\u2019s (<a title=\"DA\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php\/431011-DA-Democratic-Alliance\">DA<\/a>) email and SMS campaign to encourage voter registration is not sitting well with some people who feel that this unsolicited communication (spam) is not acceptable.<\/p>\n<p>The DA, using the name and email account of its leader <a title=\"Helen Zille\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php\/407121-Helen-Zille\">Helen Zille<\/a>, sent out at least 3 separate emails last week encouraging people to register.<\/p>\n<p>This campaign was accompanied by an SMS campaign where many people received multiple SMSs from Helen Zille, again encouraging them to register.<\/p>\n<p>This aggressive email and SMS marketing campaign did not go down well with some people, who questioned where the DA received their contact details.<\/p>\n<p>Some of the comments included:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cDear Helen Zille, thank you for SMSing me to register to vote. Three times. You can stop now. Getting a bit stalky,\u201d journalist Ranjeni Munusamy said on Twitter.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDear @helenzille, yes, I am registered. NOW STOP SMSing ME!! If you keep this up you will DEFINITELY NOT get my vote!\u201d said SKA engineer Cecilia Haak on Twitter.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Even if I was on the fence this coming election, all this DA, Helen Zille spam would have convinced me to vote for anybody else #DAspam,&#8221; said\u00a0Mohamed Fayaz Khan.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The DA was contacted for comment, but the party could not immediately provide feedback on the issue.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">More DA SMS spam links<\/h3>\n<p><a title=\"DA SMS spam\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php\/564801-DA-SMS-spam\"><strong>DA SMS spam discussion<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>South Africans are berating the DA on social media platforms for its SMS and email spam campaigns to encourage them to register to vote<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":91447,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[8999,22417,35,5730,22419],"class_list":["post-91445","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-internet","tag-da","tag-elections","tag-headline","tag-helen-zille","tag-voter-registration"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91445"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=91445"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91445\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":91483,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91445\/revisions\/91483"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/91447"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=91445"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=91445"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=91445"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}