Republican Nationwide Committee sues Google over e-mail spam filters By Reuters

(Reuters) – The Republican Nationwide Committee (RNC) filed a lawsuit towards Google (NASDAQ:) on Friday, for allegedly sending its emails to customers’ spam folders.

The U.S. political committee accuses the tech big of “discriminating” towards it by “throttling its e-mail messages due to the RNC’s political affiliation and views,” based on a lawsuit filed within the Japanese District of California.

“Google has relegated thousands and thousands of RNC emails en masse to potential donors’ and supporters’ spam folders throughout pivotal factors in election fundraising and neighborhood constructing,” the RNC mentioned within the lawsuit.

Google didn’t instantly reply to a request from Reuters for remark.

Spam filters on e-mail providers sometimes weed out unsolicited “spam” messages and divert them to a separate folder.

The RNC mentioned that for a lot of the month, almost all of its emails find yourself in customers’ inboxes however on the finish of the month, which is a vital time for fund-raising, almost all of their emails find yourself in spam folders.

“Critically, and suspiciously, this finish of the month interval is traditionally when the RNC’s fundraising is most profitable,” the lawsuit mentioned, including that it doesn’t matter whether or not the e-mail is about donating, voting, or neighborhood outreach.

The committee mentioned the “discrimination” had been happening for about 10 months regardless of its finest efforts to work with Google.

It mentioned the truth that a lot of its mail was going to spam folders had price it income and it might price it extra in coming weeks as midterm elections loom.

Republicans have lengthy accused tech giants of discriminating towards conservative views and suppressing free speech.

The tech firms deny that.