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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The phone system in the US sucks. Most of it is antiquated copper wires. Because of the static and poor quality of these wires, it’s not possible to determine which calls are spam/robocalls.

But yes, the technology to eliminate them is here, but because of the poor quality, it can’t tell which is a real call as opposed to the spamming.

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