| ▲ | philipallstar 3 hours ago |
| Why would that hurt a consumption-based economy? |
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| ▲ | twodave 3 hours ago | parent | next [-] |
| Telcos make money off of scammer activity. |
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| ▲ | swed420 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-] |
| It's a vector for advertising. |
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| ▲ | philipallstar an hour ago | parent [-] | | But that's not a consumer initiative. Advertising can come from all sorts of places that the consumer doesn't like, and in economies where advanced levels of consumer choice are limited to the state bureaucrats. |
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