As President, I will initiate a robo-calling text line. If you receive a robo-call that was a waste of your time, simply forward the number that called you to our robo-call investigations line. If the FCC receives numerous complaints about a particular company, they will issue significant fines.

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[–]Tarrock 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

It's a waste of time. They use call spoofing to fake numbers. There's a reason why 90% of the time they have a number similar to yours.

[–][deleted] 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Robo-calls are indeed annoying. However, setting up a service to report them will be a waste of taxpayers' money.

[–]Chipit 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Nice try, but we all know that won't happen. Telecom makes a lot of money from these calls and they won't brook any interference. Populist move, though - but I thought populism was just for stupid people?

[–]AnarchySpeach 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

There's also the possibility this simple service could be abused to mess with innocent businesses.

[–][deleted] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

The FCC would have to pressure my cell provider into not allowing this shenanigans. I'm convinced the cell providers are making $ and that's why it "can't be stopped". Some carrier should advertise a "spam free network".

[–]AbeFroman 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

I use Nomorobo. It's free for landlines. It basically knows what numbers are robocalls and will block them. The phone rings once and that's it. It doesn't stop spoofed numbers though, but I still recommended it.