pasdechance

Spoke too soon. Two spam calls this morning.

I’m very pleased and have been waiting years for this. The way I understand it is that they’re making marketing calls explicitly opt-in, and easy to opt-out of. The non-stop calls from marketing agents stopped on July 27 for me.

There was also another change about hidden numbers that happened not too long ago which reduced the number of calls by one or two per day.

There is a list of numbers depending on your region that were registered marketing numbers. I had a filter for those, but I don’t think I’ll need it anymore. Any number starting with 0162, 0163, 0270, 0271, 0377, 0378, 0424, 0425, 0568, 0569, 0948 or 0949 was spam so it was easy to filter.

The punishment will be interesting to see. There are plenty of ways to report spam. Back in 2007 they said the French would never stop smoking in public places, and they did and a few people got fined for testing what would happen. Same thing will happen with this.

Edit: it is $87,000 per call. Damn.

I was thinking about a shooting that happened in Norway. Some of the children called their parents. It didn’t stop anything horrible from happening, but they left the world knowing they were loved.

I think this is a tough one to weigh in on depending where you come from. If I lived somewhere where the news talked about school shootings a lot, I might want my child to have a phone.

Go after the companies making addictive applications instead.