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I can't see how it can be any other way than you mention. Is it conceivable that they don't have control of who is using their network, and how they're using i
by BLKNSLVR 3y ago
I can't see how it can be any other way than you mention.
Is it conceivable that they don't have control of who is using their network, and how they're using it?
It's not like they've just landed on the planet with this big telecoms network to manage. They created them, they set the rules, they own the gates.
It's purely profit driven, no question.
In the exact same way that Google and Meta claim to not be able to police advertising on their own fucking networks.
- jcrawfordor 3y agoThe architecture of the telephone network was designed by a complex series of historical monopolies (across multiple countries), federal regulators, and state regulators. Because of this history, the providers have a surprisingly small degree of control over the traffic that passes through their network. This is, in a regulatory sense, what it means to be a common carrier.
- BLKNSLVR 3y agoMy admittedly cynical view, then, is that the structure has outgrown it's usefulness. Features are being added, which enable phone number spoofing and other shenanigans, at some point deep in the network, such that common carriers, at the tips of the network, have no control over. Thus creating a scammers/spammers paradise.