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Re:FCC will require phone carriers to authenticate calls by ... by will4274 on Wednesday April 01, 2020 @12:14AM (#22745599)
? Telecom is one of most regulated industries in the United States. Not sure why this pattern ("look how bad the free market is" @ highly regulated market) is so common here and on reddit.
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Re:FCC will require phone carriers to authenticate calls by ... by unishark on Wednesday April 01, 2020 @03:59AM (#22746661)
Because apparently every discussion on every message board needs to be hijacked to talk about one of the internet's four favorite political narratives, if there is any marginal relationship whatsoever.

Someday we'll have A.I. to screen calls for us, and hopefully it can also screen this highly-upvoted-but-worthless tripe from message boards for us.

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Re:FCC will require phone carriers to authenticate calls by ... by SAI_Peregrinus on Wednesday April 01, 2020 @12:27AM (#22745686)
I'm pretty sure they were being sarcastic.
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Re:FCC will require phone carriers to authenticate calls by ... by rat9988 on Wednesday April 01, 2020 @07:05AM (#22747494)
He is criticizing the sarcasm.
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Re:FCC will require phone carriers to authenticate calls by ... by ulucs on Wednesday April 01, 2020 @08:53AM (#22748042)
> here and on reddit

If you pay upvotes and karma, you get unsubstantiated politicised arguments. The feedback mechanism rewards those comments.

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