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There's always a legitimate need for lots of calls. For instance political dialer is allowed. Anyways, the answer is to put liability onto the carriers handling this traffic, and let the fine trickle down. I guarantee you that even with a token fine of 5 or 10 grand, all traffic resellers, from large wholesale to retail would suddenly find ways of vetting customers. They'd either hold bonds or require credit.

Sure, scammers would move to hacking pbxes to place calls. But with strong liability, resellers would find ways to limit the damage a single account could do, like you suggest.

Also there isn't any real good way to limit caller ID "spoofing". The level of interconnects makes it as hard or worse than IP spoofing. And it's already an offense to spoof ID for scamming, at $10k a pop. But no one follows up and pushes the issue.




Political dialer is legal, but not legitimate.


OK well if we wanna go that route then why stop at dialer?


Indeed, why? I say we start there and then keep going. I'd be perfectly willing to go as far as banning all paid advertising. Surely humanity could find something useful to do with the trillion or so we spend on advertising, PR, and related manipulation. But let's start small and see how it goes.


I think I remember a comedy video where somebody went door to door speaking and messaging in the manner of online advertisements. Probably also perfectly legal (despite any "No Solicitors" signs on front doors) and something that would only be part of a completely horrible world.




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