yes!
We need this here, too.
Singapore's government has proposed making telcos compensate their customers if they're phished via text messages that should have been blocked. The idea of making carriers culpable for crime emerged yesterday in a consultation paper prepared by Singapore's Monetary Authority and Infocomm Media Development Authority (IMDA). …
No filter is perfect and coughing up cash because your users have an unwise addiction to get rich quick schemes is unfair. So maybe telcos should suggest that permitting any texts to, from or within Singapore is too great a risk, and drop the service there. If tech companies are liable for what their users do with their services, many services, including all the free ones, would vanish or would have to be closely monitored by a state-aligned censor. It opens the door to universal state surveillance. So no surprise that Singapore are trying to leverage it. Ironically, I'm posting this comment on the day the UK government are leveraging state control and surveillance of social media. We need to return to tech services as conduits. Failing that, we need distributed alternatives real soon.