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Re:How does the Gmail unsubscribe button work? by zbentley on Saturday May 30, 2020 @08:25AM (#23360666)
It's ... not? At all?

That term is super widely used in spam-prevention, commercial email sending, transactional email sending, and inbox provider industries.

You can disagree with the phrasing if you want, but that doesn't make it propaganda--not any more than the Orwellian naming of the "No Child Left Behind" act makes the law itself propaganda.

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Re:How does the Gmail unsubscribe button work? by mrob on Saturday May 30, 2020 @12:42PM (#23362402)
It absolutely is propaganda. If a single verification of consent is "double opt in", then zero verification must logically be "single opt in". The evil option is reframed as good, and the neutral option is reframed as extra good. Anybody who uses it is either ignorant or a spam sympathizer.
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