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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two words: political will.
while the problem probably cannot be 100% solved until the POTS phone system is dead and gone, which will probably take quite a long time indeed, it could be made dramatically better if the FTC introduced rules requiring phone network operators to proactively manage spam.
the trouble is, that means a lot of work without much financial reward. as long as the phone network operators have political clout in washington, they can pressure elected representatives to deny this power to the FTC. elected representatives just want to get reelected, and they get a lot more money for campaigns from AT&T and verizon than they do from you and me.
we all talk about how money corrupts politics, but sometimes it feels very abstract. this is a great concrete example.
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