Re:Eliminating Robocalls
by bobthepanda on Monday March 18, 2019 @07:37PM
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The overwhelming majority of the US also speaks English, which makes it really easy to hire telephone operators. And there's also large immigrant communities that do not speak well enough and are unfamiliar with and afraid of the government.
There are 38M Spanish speakers in the US compared to 8M people in all of Austria.
Maybe if each caller be required to pay a few cents per call, mass robocalling will be too expensive. Same for email spam: charge an e-stamp of a cent or two. I'd be willing to pay a bit to keep out riff raff.
Frequent callers/emailers who you register with your account can be given a discount.
Additionally, people in the US have a generally high ability to pay and often have means to pay for things over the phone.
So, you don't have to pay much to try to scam people, and if you do, you're likely to get paid.
Probably the proliferation of small telephone companies helps avoid tracking and getting booted off the network.