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It's all about the longest running election campaign in the world. The US elections. I don't understand why it needs to be this long ๐. France, the UK, India (over a billion people!) can announce and complete elections quicker than the US.
I would love some more intelligent and nuanced spam filtering but, honestly, I don't think we'll get anything soon enough.
It'll get better in November, but then we'll get a wave of spam about stolen elections. And then better again in January when they finally finish the election game.
Do other countries have laws forbidding campaigning before a certain time?
Never heard of that. In my country it's normal not to finish your term in office, so once an election is called, they don't want to plan them too far out. That takes care of it and you're not too long in between governments