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> The main thing in mind that it did do is cause massive fees and restrictions for businesses to send text messages. I am fully in favor of businesses incurrin
by pwg 3y ago
> The main thing in mind that it did do is cause massive fees and restrictions for businesses to send text messages.
I am fully in favor of businesses incurring "massive fees and restrictions" for sending text messages.
The negligible cost of sending an email, resulting in the email SPAM problem, has indicated that doing otherwise will result in a massive flood of unwanted text messages for everyone.
- starik36 3y agoThe problem is that they used a wide brush and made it next to impossible to have a hobby project that uses text messaging. My projects send maybe 3-4 text messages a week - to me - to notify me of stuff. Before you just pay $20 to Twilio and that's enough to send messages for years. Now you have to create a fake "business" entry with them, pay them monthly, etc... It's not a lot of money, but I just don't want to deal with yet another monthly bill. I basically switched to using my employer's Twilio account for personal stuff. They don't mind with my volume.
- lesuorac 3y agoThe legislation [1] is already enough to deal with email SPAM and by extension SMS. The problem is that phone & email companies conveniently have no way of knowing who sent the spam so you can't go after them. It's an authentication problem not a cost problem. [1]: https://www.ftc.gov/business-guidance/resources/can-spam-act-compliance-guide-business https://www.ftc.gov/business-guidance/resources/can-spam-act...
- waveBidder 3y agothere's more than one way to skin a potato. one can view the charge as internalizing the externality of taking soneone's attention.