Telecom in the US makes money from spam, and the US government allows it.
The saw about "free" facebook/etc is that "you are the product".
But spam has always been allowed. The US government has unenforced laws to protect you from spam.
In the US, you pay taxes to be the product.
Corporations pay lobbying (that is, much much much less than taxes) to keep you being the product.
I'm surprised there hasn't been the mother of all class action lawsuits over this. Telecoms are so deeply ingrained in byzantine government regulation that their in-house legal teams know how to defeat anything. Municipal fiber, cooperatively shared starlink connection, or this, they know how to gum it up.
Did I only blame telecom?
Email spam: ISPs and the internet ad tracking industry, all legal and allowed.
The worst though:
US Mail. They exist on the backs of spam mail, which is an atrocity when you consider the amount of trees that must be killed for it. Again, we pay taxes to get a firehose of spam from our own government.
The saw about "free" facebook/etc is that "you are the product".
But spam has always been allowed. The US government has unenforced laws to protect you from spam.
In the US, you pay taxes to be the product.
Corporations pay lobbying (that is, much much much less than taxes) to keep you being the product.
I'm surprised there hasn't been the mother of all class action lawsuits over this. Telecoms are so deeply ingrained in byzantine government regulation that their in-house legal teams know how to defeat anything. Municipal fiber, cooperatively shared starlink connection, or this, they know how to gum it up.
Did I only blame telecom?
Email spam: ISPs and the internet ad tracking industry, all legal and allowed.
The worst though:
US Mail. They exist on the backs of spam mail, which is an atrocity when you consider the amount of trees that must be killed for it. Again, we pay taxes to get a firehose of spam from our own government.