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Here's the SMS thing for the curious > Biden allied groups, including the Democratic National Committee, are also planning to engage fact-checkers more aggress
by seriousquestion 5y ago
Here's the SMS thing for the curious
> Biden allied groups, including the Democratic National Committee, are also planning to engage fact-checkers more aggressively and work with SMS carriers to dispel misinformation about vaccines that is sent over social media and text messages.
https://www.politico.com/news/2021/07/12/biden-covid-vaccination-campaign-499278 https://www.politico.com/news/2021/07/12/biden-covid-vaccina...
- aj3 5y agoThat seems to be about stopping spamming over SMS. AFAIK censoring SMS between unknown individuals isn't even technically possible.
- floren 5y agoSMS is unencrypted and routes through the carrier's hardware. I can't see that much difficulty in, say, implementing a list of phrases or URLs which result in the message being dropped, given carrier cooperation. (The carrier cooperates or else they end up called into Congress over and over to testify about such-and-such)
- aj3 5y agoStandards don't provide such filtering functionality and telcos operate their equipment as a black box, so they don't have ability to implement additional features, especially when there is no business case for that and it could open them to new liability (undermining safe harbor arrangement).
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