eli5: Why is it so hard to fight robo/spam calls in the US?

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Someone or company is selling their product/service, why can’t the government go after these people? Seems easy-peasy.

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Capitalism.

To elaborate, the fact that there’s money being made here automatically puts stopgaps into “easy-peasy” solutions. I’m sure these companies are donating to their local congressperson to make sure sweeping government restrictions don’t happen.

There’s ALSO the thought of “scope creep”: if people don’t like spam calls, and the government agrees to stop them, what happens when people don’t like political campaign calls either?

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