Voting rights groups are sounding the alarm about anonymous text messages allegedly sent to college students in Wisconsin, threatening them with prison if they vote, according to CNN."The unsolicited text, sent from at least one 262- number to cell phones of people in their early 20s on University o...
I wouldn’t have 20 years ago when I was in college. Somehow I don’t think it’s gotten better.
Really? You would trust a random text telling you that you will go to prison for participating in a cornerstone of our democracy? The internet existed 20 years ago… You really wouldn’t have thought to double check?
You also have to consider a twenty year old and just running with the possibility. They don’t care if it’s necessarily true. They don’t have enough experience to know it’s probably not true.
We are really failing our children then.
I suspect more people were highly suspicious of any text from an unknown number 20 years ago.
Caller ID was not in everyone’s phone 20 years ago. There were a lot more random cold calls.
Calls sure, but texts are different, at that point you paid per text, people you texted you typically knew, spam was mostly still calls
20 years ago, you wouldn’t have expected to have social media / internet help you determine whether a threat was real.
We had real news back then though, and many of us watched it. We knew Bush was a dangerous moron who wanted wars. And we knew Nader was a spoiler, but enough of my idiot classmates still voted against Gore. I was dumbfounded when they would admit it with a shrug. So much so that it has still stuck with me to this day.