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The text is a transcript of a segment from the show Last Week Tonight with John Oliver, where he talks about the problem of robocalls in the US. He explains how robocalls are annoying, deceptive and illegal phone calls that use technology to spoof numbers and autodial millions of people. He criticizes the FCC for not doing enough to stop them and for allowing companies to make it hard for consumers to opt out. He ends by announcing that he has set up a program to robocall the FCC commissioners every 90 minutes with a message urging them to take action. He uses humor, sarcasm and exaggeration to make his point.
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- Robocalls are any call where you hear a recording, a robot voice, or when a machine automatically dials your number.
- Robocalls increased by 57% in 2018 to nearly 50 billion calls and are the number one consumer complaint to the FCC.
- Spoofing is a technique that allows robocallers to conceal their identity and pretend to be calling from your area or someone you know.
- The FCC has the authority to police robocalls, but its current chair, Ajit Pai, has opposed some rules that were designed to limit them and has not required telecoms to offer free call blocking services or implement call authentication.
- Some experts are worried that Pai might draft a new narrower definition of what constitutes autodialing, which could limit what would count as a robocall and make it harder for consumers to sue companies that violate anti-robocall laws.