Comment by swed420
7 days 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.
7 days 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.
Why would that hurt a consumption-based economy?
Telcos make money off of scammer activity.
Maybe in the same way that Office Depot makes money on the envelopes used in mail fraud
It's a vector for advertising.
But 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.
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