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FCC slaps $300M fine on “largest illegal robocall operation” it’s ever seen (arstechnica.com)
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[–] pixelscience@lemm.ee 29 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Yeah, I don't get why this seemed to be such a huge undertaking. The phone companies certainly know who's making all these calls on their networks.

[–] Toribor@corndog.social 34 points 2 years ago

The phone companies certainly know who’s making all these calls on their networks.

Exactly. If the networks faced consequences for knowingly routing and profiting off these illegal phone calls they would stop fairly quickly.

[–] njm1314@lemmy.world 9 points 2 years ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Cause they were complicit.