Comment by chrisnight
2 years ago
Why is the defining feature of being human the property of having a phone number?
Spam is indeed a hard problem to solve, but the issuance of phone numbers is not designed to be used as human identification.
2 years ago
Why is the defining feature of being human the property of having a phone number?
Spam is indeed a hard problem to solve, but the issuance of phone numbers is not designed to be used as human identification.
Maybe they're not necessarily going for "all humans that exist everywhere under any circumstances" but instead "humans likely to have access to a phone number which can sometimes receive SMS."
Not every app needs to cater to every single human and potential use case on the planet.