I Could Not Add My Phone Number To a Do Not Call List Today Because of the Shutdown. It's A Call In Automated Service But They Purposefully Shut it Down The Do Not Call (DNC) Registray is an automated attendant program that uses interactive voice command or keypress command to record your caller-ID based phone number with a confirmation to add it  / or remove it from the Do not call list. Today they have a message that says something that comes across as hostile and snarky, like, "this service is not available because of the government shut down.  if you want this service to be available then re-fund the government" and it hangs up on you This is outrageous I know how these things work because I've set up an interactive voice system before using ASTERISK (which is probably what they are using also--actually, Asterisk is open source, secure and free, so they are probbably NOT using Asterisk but something that costs a few million dollars to do the same thing) There is no "person" there to add you to the do not call list It's been automated for a decade.   The computers are obviously still running, because it gave an automated message The ONLY reason.  The ONLY reason they discontinued this service is to backbite on Trump and punish Trump supporters, because YOUR government is OPENLY HOSTILE to YOU.  They are holding ALL OF US HOSTAGE now, and blaming Trump for it.  The proof that THEY are doing this is right there.  It's not Trump stopping the do not call list.  It's the unelected bureaucrats I'm thinking......... ...........maybe he should keep the government closed forever And then we hire private security to backtrace the peope who are harass-calling you and then we just ICE them because there's no government no laws Harasscalls are those calls where someone pretends to be a debt collector and then they hang up on you repeatedly, after  you've told them to remove your phone number "Hello?" "Hello, John?" "This isn't John, I think you have the wrong number" "If "you THINK" I have the wrong number, I KNOW this is John.  Thanks John and have a nice day." <<Click>>  WTF? (Real debt collectors don't click. They try to get your money.  This is a group of robo callers who call when you say something critical of the government online it stimulates them to call you automatically from a fake call center in Reston VA to essentially intimidate you under the false guise of being a debt collector, but then they call and never make aggressive attempts to get you rmoney or stay on the line with you.  Trust me, I've been in debt before and they will call you and stay on the phone with you until you pay them.  They are real people and are generally I've found to be reasonable if not aggressive people, not these flyaway crow coward people...who may not even be real people but simulated AI callers)