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Indeed. And if we hit spammers with half the hammer that pirates have been hit with, it'd be a much smaller problem ... but for some reason, spam seems to be im
by elric 4y ago
Indeed. And if we hit spammers with half the hammer that pirates have been hit with, it'd be a much smaller problem ... but for some reason, spam seems to be immune to legal action.
- BowBun 4y agoSpam inflates numbers and ends up benefiting nearly everyone except the end user in the short-term: - Platforms benefit from larger activity volume, thus increasing their numbers and $$$ - FTC and other regulatory bodies get to take low-effort actions and tout the massive effects, ignoring the fact that they're slapping the ocean with a stick. - All the systems in between are charging each other for artificial traffic, resulting in a convenient ponzi-like situation. I wouldn't be surprised if large chunks of vendor (SendgridTwilio, cloud providers, etc.) revenues are from illegitimate business.
- wpm 4y agoI imagine a similar thing is happening in the phone space too. Scam calls are 99% of the calls I get on my cell phone now, and probably close to that for "revenue from calls" that the providers are raking in. If I could spin up my own cell network like I could an email server and a domain, you bet that the big cell/telecom players would "blacklist" my domain for "spam" the moment they caught whiff and instantly make it almost useless, same as Gmail does.