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It's the highest consent standard under the TCPA: a clear, written agreement, a checked box or signed form, to receive autodialed marketing texts, with specific disclosures, obtained before you send. Fundraising and promotional political texts generally need it.
A2P (application-to-person) is software sending messages at scale, what campaigns mostly do, and it's regulated and must be registered. P2P (peer-to-peer) is genuinely manual, one human to one person. The line matters because it changes the rules that apply.
Not necessarily, but the line is legal, not marketing. 'Robotexting' loosely means automated mass texting, which raises autodialer and consent questions under the TCPA. Compliant political texting (consent, registration, opt-out) is lawful; 'robotexting' is what it's called when it isn't.