Don't undersell the FCC's rules around robocalling. No, we're still getting robocalls out the ass, but when it comes from US locations companies get their asses handed to them. The FCC is also the entity that's pushing the telcos to Make it possible to stop it from overseas sources. The new laws that went in place this year f***** up my twilio automation that was sending me SMS messages on server failures. All of a sudden I have a bunch of paperwork to fill out and a waiting list to be able to send an SMS via API.

If the FCC wasn't impeding robocalls as much as it is phones would be useless by now.

Most robo calls are not illegal as long as you follow the rules the FTC laid down.

This would have ban AI generated voices, so regardless of the content of the robo call, if it used in AI voice it would be illegal.

If the origin of the call is outside the US it's much harder to prosecute the illegal calls

politicians use them for campaigning so unlikely, but yeah they should ban robo calls that haven't been pre-authorized (having the pharmacy or whatever call should still be legal)

They are... And have been since 2009. https://www.ftc.gov/news-events/topics/do-not-call-registry/robocalls

I also read that as we ain't gonna do shit

Yes just reaffirming that it’s just another law not enforced.

https://www.ftc.gov/news-events/topics/do-not-call-registry/robocalls

It's been since 2009. They need to enforce laws.

Blame the Republicans in Congress.

It took until last May for the Senate to finally confirm the fifth Commissioner. Per law, they can't create new rules or regulations when there's a vacancy.

Have you noticed that 5G was getting faster and had more coverage until it more or less stopped last year? For the first time in history, Congress did not renew the FCC's spectrum auction authority. T-Mobile bought a lot of 2.5Ghz spectrum back in 2022 but the FCC couldn't grant it to them. It wasn't until a month and a half ago that they could use it... Because Congress passed a bill that granted the authority for auctions held prior to March 2023.

They've also tried going after the VOIP services that don't follow STIR/SHAKEN or allow robocallers. But they don't have enough funding to do much more than the minimum. For the very few that they can catch, they first provide a warning period for the company to remove robocallers and correct their systems. If that fails, the FCC then permits carriers to block the provider, but they can't mandate it.

Except even that's not enough. The FCC can't take actual legal action against the providers, only the robocallers. So quite often, the provider will just change their business name, list different fake people as their executives, and then rejoin the networks as if nothing ever happened. Look up One Owl Telecom - they've done this numerous times.

But its too hard to implement! Give us money! (telecoms probably)

banned all robocalling

Oh, I didn’t realize this was literally Nazi Germany.

A slippery slope where the next thing you know, corporations aren’t people, they’re capping the unlimited anonymous campaign contributions, and ad-supported Neuralink requires informed consent.

I assume that banning all robocalls requires new legislation, whereas the regulation mentioned here didn't.

It isn't.

yeah then you'll have even more GOC money funding fake "Democratic Party" robocalls.

The TCPA, a 1991 US law, bans the use of artificial or prerecorded voices in most non-emergency calls "without the prior express consent of the called party."

Prerecorded calls are not allowed too.

One of the reasons might be that a) robo calls are illegal here, and b) if someone uses them, they are easy to hunt down.

I once got some robocalls, all of the same makeup telling me I had won a car and should call a premium number to claim it (Ha!). I just reported those numbers to the local equivalent of the FCC, and they took it down within days.

We sometimes get weird scam-sms, but thats about it.
(We is my family, other people dont really talk about it with others that much)

Wait you can use Google Assistant to make calls? I just use it to filter out spam calls without answering.