There's a proposal in Congress that would *finally* fix the Telephone Consumer Protection Act so that it more clearly bans predictive dialer calls made from a list of phone numbers. This technology is used almost exclusively by scammers.
The gov't is *finally* cracking down on Onvoy (a/k/a Inteliquent a/k/a Sinch), which is probably the #1 provider of telcom services to spam robocallers. www.kentucky.gov/Pages/Activi...
It's remarkable that the FCC is proposing to eliminate some of the rules against spam telemarketing calls and other robocalls. And it's buried on pp. 27-31 of an otherwise innocuous filing. Who is asking for this??
docs.fcc.gov/public/attac...
Telemarketing is another example that seems small but is noticeable in everyone's life. The Supreme Court's Facebook v. Duguid decision and related rulings by lower courts are largely responsible for the recent surge in spam calls & texts.
Finished my blog about the supposed "worst" #1 hits in history a few weeks ago, with 75 songs documented. Now I'm blogging about the alleged "worst" songs to reach #2 through #10 on the charts.
badtoptens.blogspot.com
Here is Cincinnati's paper this morning. The Puppy Bowl is the top national & local story. The only non-sports news item involves a politician arguing about a parking space. And they want me to pay for a subscription?
It's an important moment for the presidency: "Who Voted for the Hologram?", my humor book about the official presidential museums, is turning 6! It's now too dated to serve as an accurate guidebook, so I'm offering the e-book version FREE through Inauguration Day. www.amazon.com/Who-Voted-Ho...
You know what will get me to avoid Facebook faster than their reversal on fact-checking? Making me solve a barely legible captcha EVERY single time I log in. What's up with this?
An important story that doesn't get enough coverage: Google search no longer indexes many web sites that offer original, free content. These useful sites are now dying off as a result, and we are left with SEO spam and AI-generated slop.