Let’s Destroy Robocalls
So robocalls are the result of:<p>- Cost of phone calls decreasing to basically zero<p>- Cost of automation going to basically zero<p>- Phone calls that can come from the Internet so there are no national boundaries anymore<p>- Caller ID operating on essentially the honor system<p>- Bad actors (telephone companies) benefitting from this traffic by charging for it<p>- Larger players having no incentive to punish bad actors<p>There's a reason why most messages are now sent on whitelist instead of blacklist systems.<p>For whitelist systems to work you need to be able to enforce identity or have a significant cost to sending messages.<p>Frankly I don't even want to receive phone calls on my "phone". If I did I'd be more than happy with a contacts only whitelist. Why I can't get this is beyond me.<p>EDIT: for those mentioning the doctor's office and other non-whitelist cases, just send non-whitelisted callers to voicemail. If you need to answer the phone then OK, I guess this won't work for you. But for the majority of people for the majority of their time, whitelisted contacts only with the rest going to voicemail will work.