alt Hacker NewsThe real question is: why haven't OS manufacturers (okay, namely iOS), recognized that there is spam in texts and bring the same mechanisms we have to fight spam in email? Why can't I simply create a keyword filter for all of the current political candidates' names and auto-delete any campaign texts?
iOS exposes an API for this
Here’s a local keyword filtering app that works great: https://github.com/afterxleep/Bouncer