The legislation mentioned in the article probably would help, but the real untold sorry here is that the blame for the recent increase in robocalls lies with Paj's FCC (and thus Trump). Previous FCC rulings kept robocalls from getting out of hand, but the ruling was overturned on a small technicality. The FCC could easily replace it with a similar ruling but they haven't done anything. (My source here is the recent Reply All episode on robocalls)