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FCC wants to kill burner phones by forcing telecoms to get all customers' IDs

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Re: FCC wants to kill burner phones by forcing telecoms to get all customers' IDs

#181

Had to buy one of these SMS activation services from a guy in Nigeria using a memecoin because claude decided to ban my account because they didn’t like my credit card brand and Claude requires sms activation for new accounts. Guess these guys are going to make more money in the near future.

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Re: FCC wants to kill burner phones by forcing telecoms to get all customers' IDs

#182

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Ah yes I forgot, they're not "laws" just "rules" that the government will come after you if you break. Silly me.

> they're not "laws" just "rules" that the government will come after you if you break If you break a rule you get fined. If you break a law you can go to jail. (Congress can delegate regulation around crimes to an agency, but the crime generally has to be substantially described by statute.)

I'd like to see someone explain why a .50 BMG bolt action upper receiver (AR-15 type) is a firearm but a .556 bolt action upper receiver (AR-15 type) is not. It's literally the same damn thing but with a different sized cartridge. Nothing in the statute would allow this, yet executive 'delegation' mumbo-jumbo and magically one is basically unregulated and the other is felonies out the ass if you start commercially selling them without a host of licensing and checks.

The truth is the rulemaking and delegation stuff has strayed so far from the legal fiction as to be almost completely unrecognizable from the thin veil authorizing it.

Re: FCC wants to kill burner phones by forcing telecoms to get all customers' IDs

#183

I wish they would kill spam calling and texting instead.

Been getting two a day, clearly some ai voice robo call. We have all this technology yet these spam calls still persist.

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Re: FCC wants to kill burner phones by forcing telecoms to get all customers' IDs

#186

And people will keep carrying their phones with them. And keep using them. And keep installing apps. Yes, ideally we'd have laws against government infringement, but the capability to not use your phone is in your hands.

This comment is so divorced from reality. It is very difficult to live life in the modern world without a phone unless you want to go Amish.

Re: FCC wants to kill burner phones by forcing telecoms to get all customers' IDs

#187

And people will keep carrying their phones with them. And keep using them. And keep installing apps. Yes, ideally we'd have laws against government infringement, but the capability to not use your phone is in your hands.

More and more things require having a smartphone. Scan this QR code to install the app to cross the border. Install the app to use the street parking in this city. Install the app to board the bus. Install the app to get your filing status with department xyz. I admire your spirit of rebellion, but avoiding using a smartphone in daily life in most places will result in a lifestyle contorted specifically to avoid using a smartphone, and will cut you off from activities that were previously doable without smartphones 20 years ago.

Re: FCC wants to kill burner phones by forcing telecoms to get all customers' IDs

#190

I get over 10 scam calls a day. I'm forced to pay a company to block them because the free methods don't work. There's no way to work around it because they refuse to enforce the law on these companies cycling through burner numbers.

They are not using cell phones, they are using VOIP.

I'm aware; I'm referring to their priorities.
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