> Does the US not have a central agency that allocates phone numbers and operators?

Yes. https://www.neustar.biz/

> Does that agency not have the ability to shutdown operators who don't follow the rules?

Long story. TL;DR Spoofing DIDs isn't illegal. See my Wikipedia link above what is and isn't considered illegal.

> Edit: Ah, after reading more from that link you provided; the issue is stuck in your dysfunctional government.

Yes.

That's extraordinarly retarded.

You've broken the HN guidelines an extraordinary number of times in the past, and we cut you an extraordinary amount of slack. But the flamewars you've propagated over the last few days are serious vandalism on HN. I'm frankly shocked that you would continue to do that much damage here after we discussed this so many times.

Since giving you many benefits of the doubt has failed to persuade you to use this site as intended, I've banned your account.

"0 points"

Ah, well, Jingoism is an american word. I guess I just thougt the crowd here could agree that it's retarded to not have a political policy against fake VOIP numbers.

"Retarded" seems to be a considered a derogatory slur in these times, which could explain your downvotes.

https://www.google.com/search?q=retarded+slur

Thanks, but I somehow get the feeling that it's more about not wanting outsiders telling them how to solve problems they know they should have solved a long time ago by themselves.

I suspect that your feeling is incorrect - your word choice has significantly fallen out of favor for use in civilized discourse, at least in the United States. Beyond that it added very little to the discussion, which is often a reason for a down vote around these parts.

"Jingoism is an american word."

And fascism is a European one.

The level of overarching government control popular in Europe leads to people being killed by millions, rather than in ones and twos.

"not wanting outsiders telling them how to solve problems they know they should have solved a long time ago by themselves."

Perhaps we don't believe that people who were still running fascist slave states until the 1970s and communist slave states until the 1990s are in any kind of moral position to be lecturing us on our "problems".

Somehow, having a well-recorded connection between identity and phone line didn't lead to "fascism" in your past though.