[OT] Federal Do Not Call List: IT's Free!
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drnuncheon
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MeepoTheMighty said:
Freedom of speech does not mean that I can force other people to listen to me.
Freedom of speech does not mean that I can come to your house whenever I feel like it, interrupt whatever you are doing, and then walk away without speaking.
Freedom of speech does not mean that I can come to your house whenever I feel like it, interrupt whatever you are doing, and continue to do it no matter how many times you tell me to go away.
It's not like anyone is being forced to be on this list. You're not put on this list by default and have to ask to be taken off. This is people voluntarily choosing to be placed on the list - just as you voluntarily choose not to listen to a particular person, not to read a particular book or newspaper, not to see a particular movie.
J
Meepo-
Other than spam marketers themselves, yes, I would guess you are the only person who does not like this idea!
Seriously, I do not understand how you might interpret gaining prior consent of "sales prospects" before making marketing calls to them as impeding free speech. Frankly, it seems largely to the marketers benefit anyway, since it will force sales prospects to self-identify, and therefore be more likely to buy the products.
Other than spam marketers themselves, yes, I would guess you are the only person who does not like this idea!
Seriously, I do not understand how you might interpret gaining prior consent of "sales prospects" before making marketing calls to them as impeding free speech. Frankly, it seems largely to the marketers benefit anyway, since it will force sales prospects to self-identify, and therefore be more likely to buy the products.
Tsyr
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MeepoTheMighty said:
This isn't a freedom of speach issue.
You have every right to try to sell me your product.
What you do *not* have the right to do is tie up a service I am paying money to use for my own uses in your attempt to sell your product to me. It would be like sending flyers in the mail "postage due". And that's what they are doing... Using a phone line I payed for, for my own uses, and using it for their own use.
For the record, lest someone bring it up, commercials on television are not the same thing. There you are paying for the service, which includes commercials. No part of your telephone package includes telemarketers.
Or, as another comparison... Protesting things in public. That's free speach. What is not free speach is doing so on my lawn. Get off my lawn, damnit.
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Pielorinho
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Tsyr said:
Sorry!
Daniel
slinking off Tsyr's lawn
drnuncheon
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Tsyr said:
If you don't have cable, you're not even paying at all.
Now, should the telemarketers want to pay a significant my phone bill for the privelege of calling me, that'd be a different story. I've got a grandma in California that would love to hear from me more often...
J
Pielorinho
Iron Fist of Pelor
Tsyr said:
Oh! I thought you were giving it to me. So now you're saying it was just a short-term lawn?
Daniel
who can't leave well enough alawn
