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> With the continued push to have the phone number as a global identifier (offline and online), we need our telco providers to require more to change phone numbers.

No, we need to push back on this user-hostile trend, not stick on yet more band-aids.

Phone numbers are country-specific, impossible to own in any meaningful way for private individuals (unlike e.g. domain names), and add an unnecessary point of failure.




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