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How about this: No one is allowed to call me unless they are on my contacts list, or perhaps another whitelist of not-quite-contacts-but-allowed-to-call-me. An
by koboll 7y ago
How about this:
No one is allowed to call me unless they are on my contacts list, or perhaps another whitelist of not-quite-contacts-but-allowed-to-call-me. Any calls off those lists silently fail. Phone providers must upgrade their infrastructure to include origin-number verification.
No business is allowed to expect I be available to answer phone calls, or to require me to conduct business over the phone, for any reason, ever. Each time I am charged or penalized by a business in any way for missing their call, or not doing something that can only be done over the phone, they are required to eat the charge and then fined $10,000.
Let's throw business over the phone where it belongs: in the fucking garbage. The death of robocalls will be a nice side bonus.
- politician 7y agoGreat start! For all of the legacy web forms and apps that require a phone number field be populated, carriers must provide routing for a standardized blackhole number. No business is allowed to reject the blackhole number as an invalid phone number.
- bduerst 7y agoThey need this whitelist with Android's screen call function, which is currently manually triggered. Basically an assistant-based voice captcha that screens and forwards your calls.
- RHSeeger 7y agoI get plenty of calls from people outside my contacts list that I want to hear from. My doctor calls me to discuss test results. My daughter's school calls if there's an issue. I want to get rid of robocalling, too, but I don't want my phone neutered to do it.
- paul7986 7y agoThis can be done (1st request of ur post) easily on iPhone ... Do Not Disturb --> Allow only contacts. Also, only allow text messages from contacts via edit a contact --> text tone --> emergency bypass on and no text tone if you don't want to hear a sound. Works great for me... my phone is now all mine again! Scum are ignored & go directly to voicemail.