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From a technical perspective, I think it would be hard to correctly identify who to sue. Phone numbers can be spoofed, gotten through a 3rd party like Twilio, or come from email to SMS gateways (if those still exist).

For texts, you can probably parse out a link they want you to click, but I would expect them to be using a WHOIS guard.

Phone calls are even worse, because you'd have to interact with the rep enough to get info on who's making the call.

If it starts filing bogus lawsuits, whoever's running it may end up paying a whole bunch of attorney's fees to people defending themselves, get banned from filing lawsuits, and be more annoying to the general populace than the spammers are. I'd rather get a bunch of spam calls than deal with a single unfounded lawsuit.





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