Why would that hurt a consumption-based economy?
Telcos make money off of scammer activity.
Maybe in the same way that Office Depot makes money on the envelopes used in mail fraud
It's a vector for advertising.
But that's not a consumer initiative. Advertising can come from all sorts of places that the consumer doesn't like, and in economies where advanced levels of consumer choice are limited to the state bureaucrats.
Telcos make money off of scammer activity.
Maybe in the same way that Office Depot makes money on the envelopes used in mail fraud
It's a vector for advertising.
But that's not a consumer initiative. Advertising can come from all sorts of places that the consumer doesn't like, and in economies where advanced levels of consumer choice are limited to the state bureaucrats.