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The House and Senate finally agree on something: Robocalls – TechCrunch
In these times of political strife, it’s nice that despite our differences we can still band together as a nation in the face of a catastrophe that affects us all equally. I speak, of course, of robocalls, and it seems that the House and Senate have put their differences aside for the present in order to collaborate on a law combating this scourge.
[...] As often happens in Congress, two competing versions of the bill emerged to address this issue, and both passed in their respective chambers earlier this year. Now the leaders of the committees involved have announced an “agreement in principle” that will hopefully allow them to pass a unified version of the bill.
The “Pallone-Thune TRACED Act” owes its name to its primary sponsors — Rep. Pallone (D-NJ) and Sen. John Thune (R-SD) — and the earlier and superior acronym from the House act, Telephone Robocall Abuse Criminal Enforcement and Deterrence.
“Our agreement will require telephone carriers to verify calls and allow robocalls to be blocked in a consistent and transparent way, all at no extra charge to consumers. The agreement also gives the FCC and law enforcement the ability to quickly go after scammers,” said Rep. Pallone in a statement accompanying the news.
The bill text is expected to be finalized in a matter of days, and it will hopefully make it onto the legislative calendar in a hurry.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday November 17 2019, @06:56PM (1 child)
Give us specifics, friend. Not your interpretation/regurgitation of talking points, but specific sections of the bill that *directly* support your assertions that:
Your comment is of pretty much null semantic content. It's just a screed filled with innuendo, unsupported assumptions and ignores the important (if incomplete and too narrow) stuff that this bill does:
Requires that voice service providers authenticate calls and block spoofed caller IDs. And requires them to do so without charging their customers for it.
Implements (and while many perpetrators are outside the US, there are plenty here too) sanctions for those engaging in telephone-based scams.
You claim that Congress doesn't know what to do. That's not true. They are doing the above (which is appropriate, IMHO) and charges a variety of folks to make sure that that stuff is being done and to examine the landscape to improve/enhance these efforts.
The whole "Gub'mint bad! Bad Gub'mint!" rolled-up newspaper schtick is pretty tired.
So back up what you say with *facts* instead of innuendo and nasty hyperbole. But you won't, because you can't. All you have is bullshit to spew. Unfortunately for you, not everyone is dumb enough to fall for your verbal (or in this case, textual) diarrhea.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday November 18 2019, @04:18PM
Not your fucking stenographer bitch. You've got the link, read it.