Re:Second Factor SMS: Worse Than Its Reputation
by dataflow on Thursday July 11, 2024 @05:39PM
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> Yes, it is hard to scale Terms of Service enforcement. Yes it is a hard problem to solve finding bad actors at scale. That shouldn't be a free pass to just not do it at all.
What evidence do you have that they are "not doing it at all"?
Re:Second Factor SMS: Worse Than Its Reputation
by bigiain on Thursday July 11, 2024 @08:26PM
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> Google should be ashamed
"Do no evil. Instead enable others to do evil profitably and take a cut off the top."
Re:Second Factor SMS: Worse Than Its Reputation
by gavinhoward on Thursday July 11, 2024 @09:34PM
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> Google should be ashamed at all the money they are making from scammers and criminals and other evils.
Yes, and so should every person that works for them.
Yes, it is hard to scale Terms of Service enforcement. Yes it is a hard problem to solve finding bad actors at scale. That shouldn't be a free pass to just not do it at all. Especially when money is changing hands. If someone is paying you to be a bad actor they are either paying you to look the other way (called a "bribe" in most jurisdictions, and illegal in some of them) or you aren't doing due diligence before accepting bad money (called things like "laundering" and "embezzlement" at scale). "It's hard to scale" doesn't sound like a good excuse to do financial crimes, last I checked with banking regulators and is in fact the opposite (a larger crime); why should Google or Meta get a free pass in advertising because they don't want to put the work in and take the revenue hit?