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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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[–] Artyom@lemm.ee 14 points 1 year ago

It is absolutely a solved problem. All phone numbers have a paper trail, there are known lists of spam numbers, ergo you know the people responsible for it. If anyone in the FCC wasn't getting filthy rich off of the current model, it would be trivial to block those numbers and prosecute those companies.