Yes, I'm exaggerating. No, it's not by much.
Sure there probably is some regulatory capture but if anything at all can be regulated it’s spam calls / messages. If the government can’t regulate spam then what could it be expected to regulate.
The general population is increasing worried about scam calls for their elderly relatives, it’s already a big deal.
In fact there are really only two groups that are pro-spam: spammers, obviously, and the entities that provide them services from which they may spam.
Oh sure basically any provider of any service be it phone, web hosting, email, etc. will say they don't want spammers, and the email providers may actually mean it what with them not wanting their server's scores trashed and be unable to get email to anyone (though plenty others don't give a shit), but website hosts, telephone companies, and SMS providers? They utterly do not care and in fact go out of their way to not know when spammers are (mis)using their services.
Meanwhile like that other commenter said, everyone is incentivized to enter walled garden services that actually do the barest minimum of enforcement for spam activity. I doubt they're conspiring in a dark room somewhere, but neither side is going to upset at the other in that situation.
you forgot the entire marketing industry
> everyone is incentivized to enter walled garden services that actually do the barest minimum of enforcement for spam activity
These walled gardens actively spam you—that's how they make money. They only act against competing advertisers.
For there to be an incentive to avoid spam, we would need a social network not funded by it. To my knowledge this is essentially ActivityPub. In order for ActivityPub to be useful, we need an incentive to drag celebrities away from private paychecks that benefit from manipulation of other social networks (twitter, ig, tt). I don't believe there is any such entity or incentivization right now.
The (US) government does an excellent job of regulating many things, such as commercial airplane design and construction. Oh wait...
If the US government wanted a healthy industry, they would have bought one or otherwise directed actual competition. Instead we only have Boeing, which taxpayers also subsidized, which seems incompetent and unwilling to acknowledge fault, which seems to be generally a gargantuan waste of taxpayer dollars compared to a properly efficient and reliable no-profit outfit.
I don't understand what this has to do with spam.
It would be highly improbable that the people making those kinds of decisions could successfully regulate an airline industry, or even the much easier task of spam.
The US government has also gone to great lengths to protect Boeing from competition by boxing out concord, canadian aircraft, and embraer . I think such companies like Boeing should be considered for-profit arms of the government instead of independent corporations.
They are if you point out ads are just spam by another name
And it's not like there's no technical means for the phones either. Just enforcing caller ID would go a long way to curtail spam. Like in our great Red Tape Europe, even with uptick in recent years we have a tiny fraction of spam calls compared to the United States.
If this were true we wouldn't have spam
> And it's not like there's no technical means for the phones either. Just enforcing caller ID would go a long way to curtail spam.
A) this is insanely naïve given the international treaties that make up telecommunication agreements. B) "Just enforcing caller ID would go a long way to curtail spam." telecoms don't have any clue who is calling, see above comments about treaties.
I was replying to the comment asserting that dealing with email spam is easier, which it most resolutely wasn't until the advent of statistical filters.
> A) this is insanely naïve given the international treaties that make up telecommunication agreements.
Fun thing about treaties and agreements is they are not laws of nature and can be entered, abandoned and amended at will. A lot of regulation is getting constantly updated.
Absolutely disagree, email is the spam king. Just the fact that you can contact someone without consent breaks the entire system.