The latest iOS version now has the option to silence all unknown callers.
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I do not think this is new? There was an option to ignore calls from callers not in your contacts in iOS 12, possibly earlier.
Mm, pretty sure not. They were touting this as a new feature.
I’m thinking of Do Not Disturb + Allow Calls From.
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It’s looking like STIR and SHAKEN are actually going to happen reletively soon, so hopefully this isn’t much longer for the world.
Ok so here’s the situation.
Facebook wanted their text notification system to not be classified as robocalls.
Congress used really awful grammar when writing a law. It’s clear what congress intended when they wrote the law, but their grammar did not match their intent.
The supreme court made a correct reading and correct unanimous ruling of that shitty grammar. Of course that ruling does not match the original intent of congress.
This means that it’s only an illegal robocall if you use RNG to generate numbers. If you have a database of numbers that you dial from, then it’s not an illegal robocall according to this ruling. Congress appears to be ready to act to correct the mistake.
This whole thing could have been avoided with correct grammar, of course. But it also could have been avoided with a stronger law. Just make it illegal to make an unsolicited call or text to anyone for any reason unless it is
- An emergency (hospital with bad news)
- An accident (You got the number wrong)
- You have prior consent from the person being called to call them
And then give extremely severe penalties for violations. Serious ones. If a company does it, the executives of the company should go to federal prison forever and have their entire assets seized and evenly distributed to the people who were called.
Why are they only banning robocalls in the first place? Ban all unsolicited calls, even if humans were hired to do the dialing by hand.
Huh. I thought Vermont was the last place with 7-digit dialing.
I don’t think I’ve done a 7 digit dial since last millennium.
Really? It’s gone everywhere else? That’s a surprise to me.
MA’s been ten digit since the 90s.
I literally can’t remember the last time 7-digit dial worked for me. I think it might have even stopped working while I was at RIT.
I’m earnestly surprised it worked anywhere in the US.
Unless you’d been hanging out in like, Vermont or Utah (?) then you wouldn’t’ve been in place anywhere you’d’ve hung out.
It’s coming to an end nationwide due to FCC implementing text to 988 apparently (Suicide Prevention hotline), not that many places had it left due to overlay codes.
Funny enough I am considering getting rid of my phone number all together over 80% of my calls for the past 3 months have been spam. With this and my main email being compromised due to GMail being a jerk I am trying to find the best “normie” communication method for when I start to do some segmentation
Lol! When I saw these posts earlier today I also was surprised a place like anywhere in California still allowed 7-digit dialing and was going to add that here in Utah we have required 10-digit dialing since 2009’ish. But thought the thread didn’t need everyone chiming in with their local situations 
I was just guessing largeish, low-population states. ;3 I know Vermont still has it, I was guessing on Utah.
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New Hampshire also had 7 digit dialing until just this weekend. Like Vermont, the entire state was one area code so it wasn’t needed. I guess that the introduction of the national suicide phone number (988) changed something that now requires 10 digit dialing everywhere.