cross-posted from: https://piefed.blahaj.zone/c/us_politics@piefed.blahaj.zone/p/1015726/fcc-considers-allowing-more-political-robocalls-before-midterms-including-those-cr
The Federal Communications Commission is considering a request by a conservative group to loosen rules on political robocalls, including those with artificial intelligence-generated voices, before November’s midterm elections.
Federal law currently bans most robocalls to cellphones unless the caller gets consent beforehand. The petition calls for a waiver that would allow political groups to use artificial or prerecorded voices in unsolicited wireless calls.
The Republican-led FCC advanced the request for public comment and could rule on it as soon as late October.
Consumer advocacy groups warn the proposed change could trigger a surge of unwanted, partisan and potentially misleading automated calls in the critical final days of the election, which will determine which party controls Congress for the final two years of President Donald Trump’s term.
More details in the article.
Also, doesn’t Apple do a pretty good job of flagging incoming calls that are likely spam? Seems my phone barely lights up but maybe I did something I forget to enable that, LOL.
If that’s the case, waiting for conservative assholes like Carr and tiny-d donnie to start leaning on outfits like Apple to respect the “freedom” of con-men and bad-faith political figures to robo-call users of their devices.