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.
I’ve always assumed the Republican party’s primary goal was self-enrichment. But at this point this is all so absurd it’s starting to feel like their primary objective is simply to do whatever is worst for Americans based off of some internal bet they’ve made with themselves.
It’s all just so comically detrimental to our nation. Literally every single move they make. It’s almost like they’re America’s enemy or something. I can’t think of another enemy that’s doing more harm to us.
Why is it when we pay for a phone, people (or AI entities) feel entitled to call us to sell us trinkets or give us messages? If we have a front door, the same thing happens, people we don’t know feel entitled to knock and attempt to sell us something.
We pay a lot of money for phones, even more for residence doors. Others view those as opportunities to harass. We’re on the Do Not Call list. Phone rings multiple times per day, robocallers who refuse to leave messages. We cannot answer the telephone any longer. Why are we paying monthly for the phone when we can no longer answer it?
Perhaps our system of trespass laws are not properly protecting us?
I thought political calls were excluded from rules already.
Anybody can add his number a few hundred thousand time to robo call lists?
I imagine he’d be interested in joining the log cabin call trees. The, uh, special one, too. With the information on the after-convention party.
Just another reason to vote for Democrats people!!! GO VOTE!!!
They’re so unbelievably less shitty than Republicans I really don’t see how people are confused. The differences are so stark I can only assume the “both sides” assholes are foreign agents and/or bots and/or severely brain damaged.
Last minute change, you say? Right when desperate MAGAs are shooting their wad and dumping tons of money into advertising to try to limit the damage, you say?
Huh.
Joke is in them, I stopped answering unknown phone numbers because it’s shit.
There are so many robocalls now, the emergency phone in our elevator is getting called. Multiple times a day it gets calls for Medicare, extended car insurance, and stuff like that.
Lmao that is so unbelievably cyberpunk/dystopic.
I think I might just disable the phone app until after the election. Only get spam calls as it is.
Wait? Those robocalls are illegal?
Huh. Somebody tell the GOP that?
Let’s tell the criminals that criming is bad.
More calls I won’t answer
