John Oliver Robocalls FCC to Urge Crackdown on Robocalls
On Sunday’s Last Week Tonight, John Oliver demonstrated the skin-crawling annoyance of robocalls by targeting the exact agency that could stop them, the Federal Communications Commission, with a hilarious robocall of his own.
But before that satisfying grand finale, the comedian explained the “clearly infuriating” phenomenon in the show’s main segment — defining robocalls and determining what we can do to end them.
“Everybody is annoyed by robocalls,” he said to open the piece. “Hatred of them might be the only thing that everybody in America agrees on now.”
Robocalls are “any call when you hear a recording or a robot voice — or when a machine automatically dialed your number, even if there is a real person on the other end,” he said. “And while a small percentage of robocalls may be useful, calls about things like school closings or prescription reminders, the vast majority of them vary from the irritating to the outright illegal.”
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