Comment by thih9
1 year ago
I wonder how will this be enforced.
For now this could be seen as an incentive for TTS solution providers - build a product that is hard to distinguish from an actual human calling. In many cases the results are already convincing.
And what about the future. Please scan your retina to initialize the phone call? Please solve a captcha to start a phone call? Your workplace registered 12948230 calls in the last 24 hours, but employs only 3 workers registered as humans, pay fine now? Interesting times.
They describe this as giving "State Attorneys General across the country new tools to go after bad actors behind these nefarious robocalls." The way that I read that is that there are these scams out there that states are already trying to bring lawsuits against, and this simply makes their job a bit easier in some of the cases they're ALREADY bringing.
An antispam idea in bitcoin circles is to require payment to open an email from an unknown source. So if I want to send you an advertisement, it will only reach you if I add a payment invoice that meets your threshold. It makes spam costly and forces advertisers to focus on a narrower range of ads to people who more likely want the product.
But how does it work? Am I obliged to open an email from a person that paid?
If not - why would advertisers pay for that? If yes, that feels like a job and not like my personal email account - I wouldn’t want that.
The trick is in how invoices can be configured in bitcoin. You would not be obliged, but you would not receive payment, and the payer would be able to reclaim those funds.
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