FCC wants to allow robocalls on your cell phone

[vorlon13]

Yes this BAD idea is back.

(I won't put in a link, just google FCC robocalls and check with your favorite news purveyor)

You may recall a few years ago US House members Lee Terry (R-NE) and Edolphus Townes (D-NY) introduced a bill to allow robocalls on everyone's cell phones, as that is currently prohibited.

Turns out, that is a VERY unpopular idea. Just from letting robo-trolls burn up all your cell minutes (depending on your plan) to interrupting you even more on your cell, everybody hates the idea.

Even 49 out of 50 States Attorneys General agreed it was a BAD idea.

Also note, with 49 out of 59 SAG, the ideas hate factor transcends party affiliation. Virtually EVERYBODY thinks this idea sucks.


So, call or text your Representative and your Senators (Really!! I have and will keep at it) and tell them to rein in the FCC and this dumb idea.

Who thinks it's a good idea ? Well, I can't imagine the FCC came up with this one in-house, so we would look to the groups that got Terry and Townes to stick their necks out (and get burned) and they would be:

American Bankers Association

and

Mortgage Bankers Association


Now, I certainly would not suggest anyone here pray to the God Anusius to shower them with Santorum, but, it's something to think about,

[Jackalope]

You know what's funny about all of this, I get at least a dozen robocalls a week.

[vorlon13]

I can't remember the circumstances precisely, but I kinda thought I was screwing up when I called a satellite TV company for a friend's installation, and the company started robo-calling my cell phone every few hours for a couple of days until they could get it cancelled.

This was back when I was on CellOne (may they all suffer hideous torment in hell) and I didn't have many minutes a month, and the few I had were expensive.

I get annoying calls on the landline quite a bit. If home improvement related I tell them the house is a ramshackle rental, if food related I ask if they take food stamps. I rarely answer 'Out of Area" calls, but will cuss out anyone claiming to be from Microsoft with that stupid scam.

My first crappy cell phone had a malfunction once in a while where it would call itself. Only way to stop it was to pop out the battery. Every call it did to itself cost me a minute. Grr. I like unlimited, but crikey, with text and data it's a hundred a month now.

[Jackalope]

My problem is that my number apparently was owned by a deadbeat before I got it, and even now, years later, I still get collection calls - even after I tell 'em "No, I'm not Lydia. Yes, I'm sure. Do I sound like a fucking Lydia to you?"

Bastards. Now I let every unknown number go to voicemail.

[Silver]

I do not have a cell phone. Problem solved.

[Darkstar]

My problem is that my number apparently was owned by a deadbeat before I got it, and even now, years later, I still get collection calls - even after I tell 'em "No, I'm not Lydia. Yes, I'm sure. Do I sound like a fucking Lydia to you?"

Bastards. Now I let every unknown number go to voicemail.

That reminds me; my mother got lots of calls for someone named Carl (no last name given) after we got cell phones years ago. Though the number of calls for him steadily decreased with time, I think she still got a call five years (or more) after the fact.

To this day we don't know who "Carl" is, but anytime my mother would ask, the caller would immediately become evasive... O_o

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I'm not saying that Carl was actually an alien, but he was probably an alien. Only logical explanation.

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[Jackalope]

Carl's a drug dealer. :p


.....ooo or maybe an assassin.