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So the solution is to regulate the assignment via phone numbers via VOIP providers. Which I perhaps, naively assumed was already happening. WTF?

toomuchtodo 9y ago
Already regulated, considered legal. Next move would be to propose legislation through a US congressional rep and move it through Congress. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caller_ID_spoofing#Legal_considerations https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caller_ID_spoofing#Legal_consi...
- johansch 9y ago
  Edit: Ah, after reading more from that link you provided; the issue is stuck in your dysfunctional government. I'm so confused right now. Does the US not have a central agency that allocates phone numbers and operators? Does that agency not have the ability to shutdown operators who don't follow the rules?
  - toomuchtodo 9y ago
    > Does the US not have a central agency that allocates phone numbers and operators? Yes. https://www.neustar.biz/ https://www.neustar.biz/ > Does that agency not have the ability to shutdown operators who don't follow the rules? Long story. TL;DR Spoofing DIDs isn't illegal. See my Wikipedia link above what is and isn't considered illegal. > Edit: Ah, after reading more from that link you provided; the issue is stuck in your dysfunctional government. Yes.
    - johansch 9y ago
      That's extraordinarly retarded.
      - johansch 9y ago
        "0 points" Ah, well, Jingoism is an american word. I guess I just thougt the crowd here could agree that it's retarded to not have a political policy against fake VOIP numbers.
        toomuchtodo 9y ago
        "Retarded" seems to be a considered a derogatory slur in these times, which could explain your downvotes. https://www.google.com/search?q=retarded+slur https://www.google.com/search?q=retarded+slur
        johansch 9y ago
        Thanks, but I somehow get the feeling that it's more about not wanting outsiders telling them how to solve problems they know they should have solved a long time ago by themselves.
        eric_h 9y ago
        I suspect that your feeling is incorrect - your word choice has significantly fallen out of favor for use in civilized discourse, at least in the United States. Beyond that it added very little to the discussion, which is often a reason for a down vote around these parts.
        Turing_Machine 9y ago
        "Jingoism is an american word." And fascism is a European one. The level of overarching government control popular in Europe leads to people being killed by millions, rather than in ones and twos. "not wanting outsiders telling them how to solve problems they know they should have solved a long time ago by themselves." Perhaps we don't believe that people who were still running fascist slave states until the 1970s and communist slave states until the 1990s are in any kind of moral position to be lecturing us on our "problems".
        9y ago

toomuchtodo 9y ago

Already regulated, considered legal. Next move would be to propose legislation through a US congressional rep and move it through Congress. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caller_ID_spoofing#Legal_considerations https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caller_ID_spoofing#Legal_consi...

johansch 9y ago
Edit: Ah, after reading more from that link you provided; the issue is stuck in your dysfunctional government. I'm so confused right now. Does the US not have a central agency that allocates phone numbers and operators? Does that agency not have the ability to shutdown operators who don't follow the rules?
- toomuchtodo 9y ago
  > Does the US not have a central agency that allocates phone numbers and operators? Yes. https://www.neustar.biz/ https://www.neustar.biz/ > Does that agency not have the ability to shutdown operators who don't follow the rules? Long story. TL;DR Spoofing DIDs isn't illegal. See my Wikipedia link above what is and isn't considered illegal. > Edit: Ah, after reading more from that link you provided; the issue is stuck in your dysfunctional government. Yes.
  - johansch 9y ago
    That's extraordinarly retarded.
    - johansch 9y ago
      "0 points" Ah, well, Jingoism is an american word. I guess I just thougt the crowd here could agree that it's retarded to not have a political policy against fake VOIP numbers.
      - toomuchtodo 9y ago
        "Retarded" seems to be a considered a derogatory slur in these times, which could explain your downvotes. https://www.google.com/search?q=retarded+slur https://www.google.com/search?q=retarded+slur
        johansch 9y ago
        Thanks, but I somehow get the feeling that it's more about not wanting outsiders telling them how to solve problems they know they should have solved a long time ago by themselves.
        eric_h 9y ago
        I suspect that your feeling is incorrect - your word choice has significantly fallen out of favor for use in civilized discourse, at least in the United States. Beyond that it added very little to the discussion, which is often a reason for a down vote around these parts.
      - Turing_Machine 9y ago
        "Jingoism is an american word." And fascism is a European one. The level of overarching government control popular in Europe leads to people being killed by millions, rather than in ones and twos. "not wanting outsiders telling them how to solve problems they know they should have solved a long time ago by themselves." Perhaps we don't believe that people who were still running fascist slave states until the 1970s and communist slave states until the 1990s are in any kind of moral position to be lecturing us on our "problems".
        9y ago