I am beginning to think that the people who parrot it are not even interested in its response (already said and reiterated hundreds of times in the last 12 hours)

Welcome to the open Internet, where millions of people may independently arrive at similar conclusions. Is this your first time here?

Or White Pages, the non-commercial version.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telephone_directory

Who lives where, and their telephone number has always been public record.

It only started to become a real problem once people started automating telephone spam. Once again, an example of how Sales/Marketing/Advertising ruins every attempt at implementing a well formed public network.

Appeal to authority isnt a convincing argument. But if you're going to do it, you need to at least reference what you're appealing to.

> Worth remembering this is public information: https://globe.adsbexchange.com/?icao=a835af

> If you own a home, your address may also be publicly available via county records.

You responded:

> ...is perhaps the hundred and fiftieth time I have read this (or a similar variant) nonsense of false analogy, already debunked explained and reexplained in hundreds of variants

Someone asked for a link to any of those comments:

> Would it hurt to link then?

And you reference the start of this thread, which is the thing being questioned. Your comments in this thread have been uncritical.

Anyway, I want to get it back on track if you're willing:

> I'm actually interested in hearing the counter argument.