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0 pointsswed42012d ago0 comments

> 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.

0 pointsswed42012d ago0 comments

> 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.

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philipallstar12d ago· 4 in thread

Why would that hurt a consumption-based economy?

twodave12d ago

Telcos make money off of scammer activity.

colechristensen12d ago

Maybe in the same way that Office Depot makes money on the envelopes used in mail fraud

swed420OP12d ago

It's a vector for advertising.

philipallstar12d ago

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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