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Re:FCC plans to rein in “gateway” carriers that bring foreig... by Volundr on Monday October 04, 2021 @11:02PM (#28755057)
> It's not the HN readers that the FCC is concerned with.

I hope it is. I hope it's everyone they are worried about. I remember in the way back of the late 90s/early 2000s I always picked up the phone, and if I missed I'd actually call back an unrecognized number. Can you imagine? And believe it or not it wasn't just me, it was a thing people did. Odds were that the person at the other end was someone you wanted to talk to.

Now a few years later when the phone rings all I'm looking to do is silence the damn thing. Literally 9/10 (maybe more) calls I get are just spam, and that's letting Google filter the calls it knows are spam. It doesn't have to be this way, and I hate that we've just thrown up our hands and accepted this. I really hope that we can get back to a place where the phone ringing is a precursor to human contact and not just another annoyance.

Re:FCC plans to rein in “gateway” carriers that bring foreig... by entropyie on Tuesday October 05, 2021 @04:23AM (#28756732)
Robocalls and support scams only really arrived with a vengeance last year in Ireland. Even still I would answer and call back pretty much every call from an Irish caller id today. I reckon at least 19/20 calls are legit... I suppose we've been flying under the radar up to now...

That said, there has been a definite deterioration in the last 24 months...

Re:FCC plans to rein in “gateway” carriers that bring foreig... by Animats on Tuesday October 05, 2021 @03:21AM (#28756405)
I get surprisingly few junk calls. Mostly AT&T trying to sell me DirectTV. I'm on the Do Not Call list, which seems to actually work.
Re:FCC plans to rein in “gateway” carriers that bring foreig... by makosdv on Tuesday October 05, 2021 @07:47AM (#28758098)
Whereas I'm on the Do Not Call list as well and get way too many junk calls... so "your mileage may vary"...