I don’t actually get many spam calls, maybe once a month.
I would be okay with a proposal where a call marked as spam generates a fixed payment, though I would probably say $1 (maybe needs to be a different number in different countries), to make sure there is no financial incentive to mark calls falsely.
Remember, they won’t be able to use spam calls to promote their scam!
That depends on whether a similar rule also applies to spam SMS.
Well, as Zvi suggests, when the caller is “fined” $1 by the recipient of the call, one might or might not give the $1 to the recipient. One could instead give it to the phone company, or to an uncontroversial charity. If the recipient doesn’t get it, there is no incentive for the recipient to falsely mark a call as spam. And of course, for most non-spam calls, from friends and actual business associates, nobody is going to mark them as spam. (I suppose they might do so accidentally, which could be embarassing, but a good UI would make this unlikely.)
And of course one would use the same scheme for SMS.
I don’t actually get many spam calls, maybe once a month.
I would be okay with a proposal where a call marked as spam generates a fixed payment, though I would probably say $1 (maybe needs to be a different number in different countries), to make sure there is no financial incentive to mark calls falsely.
That depends on whether a similar rule also applies to spam SMS.
Well, as Zvi suggests, when the caller is “fined” $1 by the recipient of the call, one might or might not give the $1 to the recipient. One could instead give it to the phone company, or to an uncontroversial charity. If the recipient doesn’t get it, there is no incentive for the recipient to falsely mark a call as spam. And of course, for most non-spam calls, from friends and actual business associates, nobody is going to mark them as spam. (I suppose they might do so accidentally, which could be embarassing, but a good UI would make this unlikely.)
And of course one would use the same scheme for SMS.