<story><title>FCC fines robocaller a record $300M after blocking billions of their scam calls</title><url>https://techcrunch.com/2023/08/03/fcc-fines-robocaller-a-record-300m-after-blocking-billions-of-their-scam-calls/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>rightbyte</author><text>&amp;gt; my doorbell (which I answer if I&amp;#x27;m expecting someone)&lt;p&gt;My would you not answer if you don&amp;#x27;t expect someone? Pranks? Sellers? I have never experienced any door knockers that are obnoxious, except one seller once. Mostly it is friends, neighbours or missionaries who are unannounced.</text></item><item><author>MiddleEndian</author><text>&amp;gt;Facebook and others keep that in mind as you relentlessly monetize without offering value to people.&lt;p&gt;Pretty much all of my communication on Facebook Messenger is with my friends, and the rest is with some groups I&amp;#x27;m in to find local events, which I could leave hassle-free at any time with the click of a button. No communication with spammers or businesses, with the exception of someone with an obviously hacked account once every few years.&lt;p&gt;With the rare exception, my incoming calls on my phone are either my doorbell (which I answer if I&amp;#x27;m expecting someone), or spammers (who I don&amp;#x27;t answer).&lt;p&gt;So I would say Facebook keeps this in mind much better than the phone company.</text></item><item><author>phkahler</author><text>This kind of thing is why a lot of people dropped their land line. Sure it was made largely redundant with mobile, but it also became &lt;i&gt;primarily a nuisance&lt;/i&gt;.&lt;p&gt;Facebook and others keep that in mind as you relentlessly monetize without offering value to people.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>wccrawford</author><text>Even before I had door cameras, I would just not answer the door if I wasn&amp;#x27;t expecting someone.  Everyone I know would know enough to call or text before coming over, and anyone in an emergency would keep knocking.&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;ve had plenty of obnoxious salespeople and other solicitors, especially religious ones.  They even have the nerve to claim that they aren&amp;#x27;t soliciting because they&amp;#x27;re not selling anything for money.  And none of them have the good sense to accept that they&amp;#x27;re bothering someone that is obviously not happy that their door was knocked on.&lt;p&gt;Unless I&amp;#x27;m already in a really bad mood, I generally start off nice, but I turn serious as soon as they refuse to take the first &amp;#x27;no&amp;#x27;.  Except for the ones I argue with for a while to waste their time and energy.</text></comment>
<story><title>FCC fines robocaller a record $300M after blocking billions of their scam calls</title><url>https://techcrunch.com/2023/08/03/fcc-fines-robocaller-a-record-300m-after-blocking-billions-of-their-scam-calls/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>rightbyte</author><text>&amp;gt; my doorbell (which I answer if I&amp;#x27;m expecting someone)&lt;p&gt;My would you not answer if you don&amp;#x27;t expect someone? Pranks? Sellers? I have never experienced any door knockers that are obnoxious, except one seller once. Mostly it is friends, neighbours or missionaries who are unannounced.</text></item><item><author>MiddleEndian</author><text>&amp;gt;Facebook and others keep that in mind as you relentlessly monetize without offering value to people.&lt;p&gt;Pretty much all of my communication on Facebook Messenger is with my friends, and the rest is with some groups I&amp;#x27;m in to find local events, which I could leave hassle-free at any time with the click of a button. No communication with spammers or businesses, with the exception of someone with an obviously hacked account once every few years.&lt;p&gt;With the rare exception, my incoming calls on my phone are either my doorbell (which I answer if I&amp;#x27;m expecting someone), or spammers (who I don&amp;#x27;t answer).&lt;p&gt;So I would say Facebook keeps this in mind much better than the phone company.</text></item><item><author>phkahler</author><text>This kind of thing is why a lot of people dropped their land line. Sure it was made largely redundant with mobile, but it also became &lt;i&gt;primarily a nuisance&lt;/i&gt;.&lt;p&gt;Facebook and others keep that in mind as you relentlessly monetize without offering value to people.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>monetus</author><text>Not the OP, but, I once fought off a robbery with a fencing hammer, that started that way.  Maybe look for balaclavas before you open the door.</text></comment>