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Not scary because the agency is not acting on its own initiative -- only on behalf of each individual citizen, on direct orders from that citizen.

We need to keep our eye on the ball here. Federal and state governments have all sorts of agencies grossly abusing citizens against their will, and we would do well to focus our energies on those. Calling the "do not call" program an over-reaching by a government agency is a huge stretch. The telemarketers are taking a bite out of citizens' time, without those citizens' consent, and many citizens have found it necessary to incur further time and expense on installing technological obstacles to cut down on the telemarketer's intrusions. Any citizen who actually likes, or doesn't mind receiving these infernal calls, is free to continue receiving them -- the FCC won't put your number on the do-not-call list without your request.