I have considered at length that this state of affairs is a direct outcome of the Telecommunications Act of 1996, in which our corporate owners arranged for the phone system to have caller ID spoofing built in to the infrastructure, for reasons they thought were good at the time.
I am once again asking you to consider that an entire information ecosystem established as the primary form of communication over a hundred years and allegedly regulated by the federal government was destroyed by scammers virtually overnight and we just don’t, like, ever talk about it
