We’re going to need to create a cost for the sender (so it can’t scale to ridiculous) as well as an identity layer (so scammers can’t be fully anonymous–reputation is earned, not invented). It might be an open protocol in the spirit of the best parts of the net, or it might be a single monopolist that figures out how to extract value from it.

Erik Craddock@eriklink
An end to fully open networks

Seth’s Blog
An end to fully open networks
Open communication networks like phone and email cannot survive AI-scaled spam without sender costs and identity/reputation layers.
