Eli5: Why can’t spam call centers be automatically shut down?

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Additionally, why can’t spam calls be automatically blocked, and why is nobody really doing a whole lot about it? It seems like this is a problem that they would have come up with a solution for by now.

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The thing with spam call centers is that they operate ‘under the radar’, using otherwise-legitimate businesses as a front. In fact, they’re often owned and operated *by* the owners of the legitimate business as a side-hustle.

So, if you shut the phone line to the spam call center, you *also* have to shut down the lines assigned to the legitimate business venture, which the owner of the legitimate business can quite reasonably object to.

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