FCC allows a fake gov site to spread fake news stories
Doesn’t the FCC or the Real SMS care that the fake SMS (smsgov.com) is spreading fake news stories about the toll free industry? Does it bother the FCC that a secret organization hiding their identity behind a fake Netherlands address is pretending to be a government authority? Is making up a completely fake organization that looks like part of the government allowed? Why does smsgov have a government type seal on their homepage and have sms and gov in their name if they’re not trying to make people think that they’re related to them?
The Fake SMS is trying to scare people into thinking we’re out of 800 numbers all together and that they’re able to lie and make up so many posts? Letting this anonymous person write post after post designed to scare people and create an uproar, makes the FCC look like they don’t care about what anyone does in the toll free industry. I hate government intrusion and am very conservative almost libritarian at times, but the things the smsgov is saying are wrong and it is clearly wrong and are bad for the industry and make the FCC look powerless to shut them down.
Allowing an anonymous person to look like a gov entity and put out fake news is clearly a security risk!
Do you think the FTC would care if someone from overseas started anonymously spreading false news stories as if they were a government related entity about financial industries? Would the FTC care if this fake organization was making themselves look like a government related office and was saying we’re running out of Silver or any financial asset in order to drive up the demand for that asset? If they were left to go on and on would that hurt the industry and be a security risk? Is our telecommunications industry less important than our financial industry?
The FCC has an obligation to at least investigate this and protect the public. It’s their job to protect the industry and consumers from the biggest source of false and misleading information out there. And for someone to just keep doing it month after month, putting out false stories and false quotes is dangerous to the industry and has to be shut down.
The real numbers about 800 numbers
Smsgov is clearly trying to convince people that we’re running out of toll free numbers. They have posted dozens of different variations of this without a single statistic, because the Real SMS statistics show the opposite. This past week the actual SMS statistics showed that as of 5/23/09 at 11:59pm there were 6,188,838 available toll free numbers and that number is down from the week before by 16,751. At that rate, we only have a 30 year supply left. To be honest it was a holiday weekend so perhaps the rate of last year which showed a 25 year supply is more realistic. In any case the sky isn’t falling as the Fake SMS is trying to make people think so you have to wonder why someone would go to all this trouble to make people think we’ve already run out of toll free numbers and why they would work so hard to hide their identity.
The smsgov is clearly attacking me because I am the only one warning people about them. But I don’t give a dam. It only proves that what I’m saying is effective and that it bothers them, and that they have to be shut down. I love this industry and I hate to see someone wearing a mask come in and hurt it.
If you care about the toll free industry contact the REAL SMS and/or the FCC and ask them to do something about this.
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