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Comment by martin_a | Hacker News Reader

People! You really need to get into politics or whatever and fix those things from a legal side!

You really need to stop inventing services and starting businesses for the most simple things in life!

edit: Don't get me wrong, I love the spirit, but there are _real_ problems to tackle and you are still working on stopping telephone spam? It's 2020, nobody should even think about things like that...

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Robocalls are the #1 complaint to the FCC.

Ok, then go out, complain to your local politicians and whom else in charge to make a law to stop it. That's how it works.

Creating a whitelist service for yourself literally only takes a couple hours studying Twilio docs. Hardly a huge waste of time, and when you get 2 spam calls every morning before 8 am for weeks it's completely worth it.

Creating change in a society might also only take a couple hours, but serve the people next to you and after you.

Just imagine you would be in charge to keep your whole town clean of robocalls. What would you do? Set this up for everybody in town, administer it and take care that it's up 24/7?

Helping (anywhere in the line of this process) to pass a law that simply prohibits such calls seems to be more efficient.

Most robocalls are illegal anyway, unless you've given your explicit consent to a company, like your utility company.

Making something illegal doesn't mean it goes away completely (or at all). https://www.consumer.ftc.gov/articles/0259-robocalls#legal

In Germany I can report numbers that are doing spam SMS or calls to a governmental agency and they will be shut down within days. That should be possible for other countries, too.

What should we be thinking about ?

Apparently we are all supposed to become lawyers. ;)

Nah, this is exactly wrong. What you're describing is the hard way to solve small problems. There's really no personal value in doing that.

As for me I just use Google Fi and an Android and it blocks these for me.

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