Comment by jmyeet

I suspect this will be challenged and the Supreme Court will overturn it on First Amendment grounds.

Why? Because creating hate and fear through variouis forms of media is a key part of politics. For example, local media (newspapers, radio and TV) are very big on ppushing crime hysteria narratives, despite crime being near all time lows.

There's too much vested interest in unlimited robocalls to let this ruling stand.

The one exception to all this is if you use an AI-generated voice to impersonate someone to say something they never said but this is already illegal on the grounds of defamation. The same applies to any deepfakes.

The real problem is that the phone network as it exists now needs to die. Add to that the decades-long effort to pack the court and overturn campaign finance laws (ie Citizens United v. FEC).

So I suspect this move will go nowhere. This will probably be even easier to challenge when SCOTUS overturns Chevron, as most expect them to do, essentially gutting executive agency power.