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> I thought this was supposed to happen 5 years ago. Did they just chicken out on the prospect of actually shutting down telcos sending spam volume? It would c
by swed420 4mo ago
> I thought this was supposed to happen 5 years ago. Did they just chicken out on the prospect of actually shutting down telcos sending spam volume?
It would certainly hurt a consumption-based economy, for starters.
- philipallstar 4mo agoWhy would that hurt a consumption-based economy?
- twodave 4mo agoTelcos make money off of scammer activity.
- colechristensen 4mo agoMaybe in the same way that Office Depot makes money on the envelopes used in mail fraud
- swed420 4mo agoIt's a vector for advertising.
- philipallstar 4mo agoBut that's not a consumer initiative. Advertising can come from all sorts of places that the consumer doesn't like, and in economies where advanced levels of consumer choice are limited to the state bureaucrats.
- swed420 4mo ago> But that's not a consumer initiative. Seems irrelevant to the original point.
- philipallstar 4mo ago"consumption-based" requires consumers.