[eno_]

One reason this isn't unreasonable is that the entire mobile phone industry works just FINE without telemarketers.

There are numerous laws on the books against nuisances. As a small-l libertarian, I have no problem with laws against leaving dog poop on the sidewalk. Telemarketing calls are verbal dog poop delivered right to your dinner table. Unless you assiduously ID every caller, and don't find a ringing phone to be an intrusion that ought to come with a good reason behind it, laws against telemarketers are perfectly reasonable.

[Badray]

There are local ordinances against leaving dog poop where it is deposited by your pooch and there is a health and safety factor that goes along with the poop, unlike a phone call. I will grant you that sometimes the calls are a load of crap, but only in a virtual sense will no real hazards.

What I see now is that just like the libs, and social conservatives running to the government to regulate activities that they don't like, the last wise people on earth -- the small (l) and large (L) libertarians -- are jumping on the government regulation bandwagon. It's disheartening to say the least.

This is the Federal government that people are running to. Do you think that this regulation will be done without a large new bureaucracy and great expense?