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Contrarian thought, doesn't this open a can of worms where the government is allowed to sensor text messages under the pretext of some subjective "fraud"? What
by hackernewds 4y ago
Contrarian thought, doesn't this open a can of worms where the government is allowed to sensor text messages under the pretext of some subjective "fraud"? What if tomorrow they decide that messages around fundraising for a particular party is fraud?
I'll rather everything is delivered and then the spam filtering is done on the provider/device level. These kinds of things are usually implemented with innocuous cover and malicious intent.
- skybrian 4y agoThese are rules about what providers have to do. Also, they are about blocking certain unused numbers (that is, unused for text messages), and it doesn't seem to be based on the content of the text messages. Somehow the providers need to get lists of these numbers and it's only going to be as good as the providers' information sources. I suppose a government agency could put someone else's number on a list, but that would be rather obvious.