FCC proposes $10 Million fine for spoofed robocalls

Keith Medcalf kmedcalf at dessus.com
Thu Dec 19 23:02:42 UTC 2019


On Thursday, 19 December, 2019 14:02, Michael Homas wrote:

>There are robocalls that you want to get. Here in california, our
>wonderful electric company sends out robocalls when they are going to
>cut our electricity so they don't get blamed for burning down cities
>(and then still manage to anyway). I'm not sure if our earthquake alerts
>can robocall or not, but that would certainly be another one that you'd
>want to get. There are plenty more examples.

That stupid people do stupid things has no bearing on me.  If there is a legal requirement for these people to be "notifying" then they are required to notify.  That they chose an assinine and ineffective method of notification does not relieve them of their legal obligations.

I do not want to receive robocalls period.  End of Line.  No Exception.  Ever.  For any reason.

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