> Why can't they crack down on all robocalls? It's become a persistent (or at least seasonal) annoyance.
Very harmful to the utility of the entire phone system.
It's still the wild west today, like pre-gmail email. The private sector mostly solved email spam more than 20 years ago. The fact that phone spam is still happening means something isn't working right in telco land.
And no, I don't want to pay a [super offensive] recurring extra monthly fee to the duopoly mafia that is AT&T and Verizon in order to stop or "fight" the spam calls. The duopolists are already receiving a substantial amount of money every month from each subscriber!
The current state of affairs is upsetting.
p.s.
This has been posted multiple times this week:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32194227 2 comments
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32187228 1 comment
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32186971 1 comment
Glad to see it finally maybe catching some attention!
For the fairness, compared to emails, I guess this one's a bit harder one to solve -- There are bit of context to work with -- address, contents, etc., and there are so many to classify and get feedback against. (To be able to effectively filter therm, it'll need a lot of spams, as well as non-spams!)
Screening phone calls is hard, considering those systems can only work with a phone number which may be spoofed (although, with STIR/SHAKEN, this is increasingly getting some attention). There's a lot of privacy implications (and perhaps a bit of legal implications) to be able to scan contents of the call.
