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>what's the moral justification for making this illegal? The robocalls I receive are all using fake caller IDs. At that point, it's fraud, isn't it? I wouldn'
by codeplea 7y ago
>what's the moral justification for making this illegal?
The robocalls I receive are all using fake caller IDs. At that point, it's fraud, isn't it?
I wouldn't mind robocallers if they used a real caller ID. If that were the case, I could just block them and be done with it.
- smabie 7y agoMisrepresentation is a commonly agreed upon morally bad thing (i.e lying). But spoofing is an issue seperate and apart from robo-calls, even if the correlation between the two is very high. So we still need to figure out what, exactly, is morally bad about being robo-called. And the answer can’t be related to spoofing, do not call lists, or whatever, as these are not related to the essence of what defines a unsolicited robo-call.
- erik_seaberg 7y agoTragedy of the commons. Unwanted bulk requests that intentionally evade automated filters are an attack on the availability of a communication network.
- dredmorbius 7y agoSmall-scale spoofing, a/k/a pseudonymous / anonymous whistleblowing or commentary, can be useful, and has a very well-established tradition. The goal of, effectively, all robocalls is fraud or value-extraction from the system. It works only because of the scale possible. Small-scale operators (unless hugely and widely distributed) don't exhibit these characteristics. A fundamental problem of robocalls is the scale of operation itself. Scale matters. Countermeasures which disrupt at-scale operation whilst protecting small-scale activities are net beneficial.