There is no response too extreme in defense of the utility and relevance of the telephone system. The telephone system is one of modern humanity's crowning jewels, attacks against it are attacks against civilization itself. The government should be striking non-compliant telco executives with AGM-114R9X missiles (they've had several years of warning already) and then start working down the chain of command until the guilty telcos either surrender and comply or no longer exist. I am a moderate.