• jtrek@startrek.website
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    21 hours ago

    If I was magically in charge, I would make it so if you got an unwanted text or call you report it and the phone company has to pay you like $10.

    They don’t deal with this problem because they only care about profit.

    • AxExRx@lemmy.world
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      2 hours ago

      Im not sure i want the phone company to make the decision.

      It should be more along the lines of all phone companies must take a deposit to open an account. Foreign and voip calls must be linked to a deposit for the phone company to be allowed to connect those calls. A call gets reported as spam, the $ come out of the deposit, if the deposit gets used up, theyre banned from calling until they reup their deposit.

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      7 hours ago

      This is technically how it already works except for the government gets the $10 instead of us

      There’s no enforcement on this though.

    • Captain Aggravated@sh.itjust.works
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      8 hours ago

      If I was in charge, all phones would be required to have a built-in taser. The recipient of a call should have a button they can press to tase the caller. This taser must be strong enough to seriously injure a human, like, burn ward you never hear out of that ear again strong enough, or strong enough to set any computer that phone is attached to on fire. Capital offense to remove or disable the taser from a phone.

      That would solve the problem I think.