John Locke tweets on "robo-calls"

But if a long train of Abuses, Prevarications, and Artifices, all tending the same way, make the design visible to the People, and they cannot but feel, what they lie under, and see, whither they are going; ‘tis not to be wonder’d, that they should then rouze themselves, and endeavour to put the rule into such hands, which may secure to them the ends for which Government was at first erected …

Source: John Locke, Two Treatises of Government.  Cambridge Texts in the History of Political Thought, ed. Peter Laslett (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010), p. 415 [paragraph 225].

Note: Two Treatises of Government was likely written in the period of 1679-80, well before the England’s “Glorious Revolution” of 1688-1689.