The Us Do Not Call Registry Is Offline
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The US Do Not Call registry is offline, sparking discussion about its effectiveness and the impact of the government shutdown, with many commenters expressing skepticism about the registry's usefulness.
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I'm struggling to understand why this system would be offline while the FTS website is still online: https://www.ftc.gov/
Is there a technical reason for the registry to go offline, or is it an intentional casualty of the power struggle in DC?
Just telling them to stop calling doesn’t work, but since I started wasting their time they have mostly quit calling. I get one or two a month.
https://lennytroll.com/
I never signed up for it because I know this is really a method for giving telemarketers a list of good phone numbers. I hardly get any calls were people I know who signed up gets lots.
That is because these companies opened up subsidiaries in foreign countries and used the list to call people. Many calls people I know get are from spoofed numbers located in other countries.