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Much of this is already established knowledge and practice in the world of email. People report spam for communications that they don't wish to receive, and often reporting spam is vastly simpler than any other option. I'd propose that absent specific legal processes contact occurs at the consent and discretion of the contacted. That's one of a number of principles I've been kicking around under the notion of "Communications Autonomy"[1]. There is no fundamental right to attention. As such, any communications system which doesn't provide the ability to manage contact attempts and communications is in violation of those principles, and more concretely, as the annoyance and/or risk factors outweigh advantages and benefits, people and organisations will defect from those systems in droves. The telecoms industry has been openly expressing concern that trust in the phone network will be lost. And by "phone network" I'm speaking broadly: POTS (plain old telephone service) and PSTN (public switched telephone networks), or any universal direct-access communications system.[2] I think we're seeing that breakdown. A key problem is that there isn't any single successor system that appears ready to step in, and most of the more likely proposed systems entail substantial concerns themselves over monopoly power and abuse, surveillance (state, capitalist, or other-actor varieties), etc. I've got a few specific suggestions which I'm planning to make in a top-level comment to this thread. ________________________________ Notes: 1. See: <https://toot.cat/@dredmorbius/108579251632091173>, <https://toot.cat/@dredmorbius/107742445268072257>, and <https://diaspora.glasswings.com/posts/622677903778013902fd00...> 2. Phone, email, SMS, social networking, postal mail, etc. |