The call recipient's attention does not scale and is a precious limited resource. Using taxes to defend it is a very good idea.
Most social problems can't be solved with technology. SV's ridiculous belief that they can is what's gotten us in the mess we're in.
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SS7 being unauthenticated for practical purposes is very much a technology problem, and the technology problem created the social problem as soon as telecom got cheap enough. This is a problem technology can fix. Ironically, SS7 was rolled out to fix flawed in-band signaling.
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Also, this particular technology problem has nothing to do with Silicon Valley. It's straight out of Bell Labs in the 1970s.
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I actually agree with you that higher telecom costs discourage spam. I just don't think that's the only way to do it, the best way to do it, or a way that would help people more than it helps phone companies.
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