<story><title>FCC Chairman Proposes Robocall Blocking by Default</title><url>https://www.fcc.gov/document/chairman-pai-proposes-robocall-blocking-default</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>hedvig</author><text>The more I look at things as I age, the more I see market based solutions as only benefiting the supplier and always hurting the consumer.</text></item><item><author>duxup</author><text>According to Ars they want to leave it up to the carriers if they want to charge for it, if that is accurate and the robocall problems escalate then you could end up paying for it by default ... or just get robocalls all day.&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;arstechnica.com&amp;#x2F;tech-policy&amp;#x2F;2019&amp;#x2F;05&amp;#x2F;ajit-pais-robocall-plan-lets-carriers-charge-for-new-call-blocking-tools&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;arstechnica.com&amp;#x2F;tech-policy&amp;#x2F;2019&amp;#x2F;05&amp;#x2F;ajit-pais-roboca...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;quot;It will cost $X a month for service, and $Y more if you want to be able to use it...&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;And as a revenue stream I worry this could create a perverse disincentive for carriers, why deal with a problem that makes people give us more money?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>wpietri</author><text>Honestly, it&amp;#x27;s not clear to me that most &amp;quot;pro-market&amp;quot; advocates even understand markets. They work best when purchasers have many options, clear information, easy switching, and equal power to sellers. But at least in the US, most of the &amp;quot;pro-market&amp;quot; voices in practice seem to be in favor of oligopoly and the absolute right of businesses to exploit information, wealth, and power asymmetries.&lt;p&gt;It makes me a bit bonkers, because well-designed markets can do an amazing job solving optimization problems.</text></comment>
<story><title>FCC Chairman Proposes Robocall Blocking by Default</title><url>https://www.fcc.gov/document/chairman-pai-proposes-robocall-blocking-default</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>hedvig</author><text>The more I look at things as I age, the more I see market based solutions as only benefiting the supplier and always hurting the consumer.</text></item><item><author>duxup</author><text>According to Ars they want to leave it up to the carriers if they want to charge for it, if that is accurate and the robocall problems escalate then you could end up paying for it by default ... or just get robocalls all day.&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;arstechnica.com&amp;#x2F;tech-policy&amp;#x2F;2019&amp;#x2F;05&amp;#x2F;ajit-pais-robocall-plan-lets-carriers-charge-for-new-call-blocking-tools&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;arstechnica.com&amp;#x2F;tech-policy&amp;#x2F;2019&amp;#x2F;05&amp;#x2F;ajit-pais-roboca...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;quot;It will cost $X a month for service, and $Y more if you want to be able to use it...&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;And as a revenue stream I worry this could create a perverse disincentive for carriers, why deal with a problem that makes people give us more money?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>duxup</author><text>I really wish there w as a party interested in free markets and fostering competition.&lt;p&gt;Rather the GoP whose rhetoric talks about free markets, is really just all about picking winners themselves and legislating profits for their allies.</text></comment>