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To: rattrap
I know I am going to get flammed for this comment, but here goes...

I don't have a problem with this ruling. I am not a telemarketer, but I am perfectly capable of hanging up on telemarketers, or letting the answering machine get it. Just as I am capable of deleting and blocking spam messeges. This is not tresspassing. I am just as oppossed to smoking bans, abusive use of emminent domain, etc...

26 posted on 09/24/2003 9:18:07 AM PDT by ibheath (Born-again and grateful to God for it.)
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To: ibheath
I agree with you completely. I fail to see where any alphabet angency is given the constitutional authority to determine who can call whom and for what purpose.

I think conservatives are on the wrong side of this issue.

30 posted on 09/24/2003 9:27:48 AM PDT by Durus
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To: ibheath
We ought to question anything Federal. Question a Federal list of those who don't want telemarketers calling, question a Federal list of firearm purchasers, question a Federal ID card. Maybe this list is a good thing, but we are granting the Feds yet another power. Day by day, drop by drop the power grows.
42 posted on 09/24/2003 9:52:40 AM PDT by RightWhale (Repeal the Law of the Excluded Middle)
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To: ibheath
I don't have a problem with this ruling. I am not a telemarketer, but I am perfectly capable of hanging up on telemarketers, or letting the answering machine get it. Just as I am capable of deleting and blocking spam messeges. This is not tresspassing.

THANK YOU. I hate telemarketers as much as the next guy, and I confess that I did register for this list. But the do not call registry is very clearly an intrusive concept as far as protecting free speech. I am grateful that the courts are willing to look at the bigger issue here.

The do not call list imposes a governmental barrier to entry against companies who wish to compete against larger companies with strong market shares. It prohibits a company with a better product or lower price from communicating with 50 million potential consumers using a public medium. It can only result in market inneficiency and higher prices.

It seems to me that if a person lists his name and phone number in a public directory, there should be no prohibition against anyone, whether business or political or charitable, using that information to exercise their free speech rights.

127 posted on 09/25/2003 6:19:37 AM PDT by massadvj
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