RNC, Others Support Peer-to-Peer Alliance Calls for TCPA Clarity
The Republican National Committee and other commenters supported the Peer-to-Peer (P2P) Alliance request that the FCC clarify that P2P text messages to mobile phones aren't subject to the restrictions in the Telephone Consumer Protection Act (see 1805040028). Comments were posted…
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Monday on docket 02-278. The commission should “tread lightly when it comes to regulating political speech, which is what the wireless-number restriction of the TCPA does,” the RNC said. “The RNC agrees with the P2P Alliance that P2P platforms are not autodialers and do not make calls using autodialing capabilities.” Vote.org also backed the coalition. “One way that Vote.org communicates with voters is through the use of P2P text messaging. P2P text messaging offers us a way to engage with voters in a personalized, individual way regarding voter registration, upcoming elections, and participation,” the group said. “As the P2P Alliance describes in the Petition, there is no basis to subject P2P text messaging to the TCPA restrictions that apply to calls made to wireless phone numbers through the use of an automatic telephone dialing system.” Every message that the National Black Justice Coalition “sends using a P2P platform is sent by an individual, who manually dials each number and transmits each message one at a time to a single recipient,” said NBJC.