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A Bipartisan Bill That Could End Our Robocall Hell Just Passed the House 429-3

6 pointsby giladalmost 6 years ago

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DATACOMMANDERalmost 6 years ago
Nitpick &#x2F; pet peeve:<p>&gt;...said that Wednesday’s vote was aimed at “[restoring] Americans’ confidence in the telephone system and put consumers back in charge of their phones.”<p>Why not just write<p>&gt;...said that the goal of Wednesday’s vote was to “restore Americans’ confidence in the telephone system and put consumers back in charge of their phones.”<p>Why embed a quoted sentence fragment in a way that requires shenanigans with brackets when you can just as easily make a slight modification to your own sentence structure? It’s distracting, and it gives the impression that you write quickly and don’t revise.
NohatCoderalmost 6 years ago
Good news, but expect an uptick in human spam calls. Outright forbidding marketing calls would be the true solution.