It should be the other way round. Telco providers should be fined for any spam call and -text they don’t prevent from happening.

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I’ve been very happy muting all my calls and instead only being notified by Signal and other encrypted messaging apps, easy fix!

My pixel automatically blocks most spam.

You can bet Verizon has a special secret division to place scam calls and texts so they can protect you from them because capitalism.

Ik sure that they won’t oopsie woopsie leak my number to spammers and scammers to sell me their advanced protection or something

Let’s call it what it is: a shake down

Let’s call it what should happen: arrests of the corpos that make these decisions

I hate to shill for Google, but the the pixel phone has call screening, and I rarely get spam to surface. It is one of the few actually great things that Google does.

Just left verizon for google fi its so much cheaper

There’s lots i hate about having a Pixel, but the spam protection isn’t one of them

Today’s FCC will allow this, I expect other carriers to follow suit. Shareholders will see money on the table.

iPhone lets you block all ringing for incoming calls that aren’t in your contacts. Solved 99% of the issue for me

I wonder if an adnauseam approach could help. Instead of the customer relying on the carrier or manually blocking spam numbers, if everyone picked up every spam call, goes through the automated system to reach a person, says “hello?”, then mutes the mic and lets the human stick around until they hang up.

Sure, they have robocallers that can hit 50,000 numbers a minute, but what happens when every single number answers and gets routed to the humans?

I don’t know how so many people get spam calls, I’ve only gotten ~2 in the past 5 years without any bloatware nonsense apps from any carrier.