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Re:As Discord nears 100M users, safety concerns are heard by akoncius on Thursday December 07, 2017 @07:58PM (#15875846)
then why cellphones are not treated same way? SMS/calls should be analyzed and then people should be banned from network if something is “wrong”. And by “wrong” I’m not talking about organising a crime such as terrorist attack or something.
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Re:As Discord nears 100M users, safety concerns are heard by superkuh on Friday December 08, 2017 @02:20AM (#15877248)
Cell phone telco propviders have monopolies on radio spectrum that come with certain obligations, regulations, and conditions. That's in addition to inheriting the rules from land telephony and public infrastructure/title II stuff.

You can bet that this kind of thing will happen if they can make it happen though.

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