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Americans Got 26.3 Billion Robocalls Last Year, Up 46 Percent From 2017 (washingtonpost.com)
Americans are now getting so many robo-calls on a regular basis that many are simply choosing not to answer the phone altogether. From a report: That's one big takeaway from a report [PDF] released Tuesday by Hiya, a Seattle-based spam-monitoring service that analyzed activity from 450,000 users of its app to determine the scope of unwanted robo-calling -- and how phone users react when they receive an automated call. Consistent with other analyses, Hiya's report found that the number of robo-calls is on the rise. Roughly 26.3 billion robo-calls were placed to U.S. phone numbers last year, Hiya said, up from 18 billion in 2017. One report last year projected that as many as half of all cellphone calls in 2019 could be spam.
While many businesses have legitimate purposes for using robo-calls -- think package delivery services, home maintenance technicians and banks -- unwanted robo-calls represent a growing challenge for regulators and telecom companies. In its analysis of a month's worth of calling data, Hiya found that each of its app users reported an average of 10 unwanted robo-calls. Many more incoming calls, about 60 on average, were from unrecognized numbers or numbers not linked to a person in the recipient's address book.
While many businesses have legitimate purposes for using robo-calls -- think package delivery services, home maintenance technicians and banks -- unwanted robo-calls represent a growing challenge for regulators and telecom companies. In its analysis of a month's worth of calling data, Hiya found that each of its app users reported an average of 10 unwanted robo-calls. Many more incoming calls, about 60 on average, were from unrecognized numbers or numbers not linked to a person in the recipient's address book.
One side shut down the government on a bullshit whim based on known-false info and cost the country BILLIONS for NOTHING. The other side tried to get a compromise on health care and faced the same GOP obstructionist bullshit.
You're trying to pretend it's 50/50, because that's exactly the sort of bullshit math the Republican faggot traitors causing the problem have put out as bullshit PR.
You want solutions? Stop supporting baldfaced liars and pretending they're 50% correct just because they have an unsupported alternate opinion about the laws of physics. You're a known moron equivocator.
Stop supporting bullshit if you don't like bullshit, bullshitter.
When >50% of calls are robots or hang ups the system is already broken.
When >50% of the calls are robots or hangups, sounds more like you just need more friends/family to call you, or just get a new number.
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