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Fisher-Price Smartphone Toy Teaches Children To Screen All Calls Assuming It’s Debt Collectors (www.theonion.com)

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[–] magnetosphere@kbin.social 8 points 2 years ago (3 children)

Marketing companies and phone carriers make a lot of money from it. Spam calls are a whole industry. Nobody has made a serious, major attempt to solve the problem because too many people are getting rich off of it.

[–] aniki@lemm.ee 5 points 2 years ago (1 children)

It is fixed with STIR/SHAKEN. It's up to politicians to force the telcos to implement it.

https://www.fcc.gov/spoofed-robocalls

[–] magnetosphere@kbin.social 4 points 2 years ago (1 children)

This subtle (but important) distinction is what I’m talking about. STIR/SHAKEN is a plan, but it hasn’t been implemented. Plans are great, but if nobody ever carries them out, their mere existence doesn’t actually fix anything.

[–] aniki@lemm.ee 2 points 2 years ago

The point is, is that nothing is going to get done unless the politicians pass a law that forces them to.

[–] AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world 4 points 2 years ago

I actually think I'm on an internal "do not call this guy, he just wastes our time" list, cause I haven't gotten a spam call in years.

[–] onion@feddit.de 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

phone number/email aliases basically solve it, which I think apple provides?

[–] magnetosphere@kbin.social 1 points 2 years ago

I’m not sure. I’ve used the email aliases, but I’ve never looked into whether telephone ones are an option.