[cookcounty]

"I find it amazing that we would rally all day about government intrusion and regulation on companies,...

It isn't the government regulating companies.

It's me, regulating what gets said by strangers in my kitchen.

These telemarketers do not have the right to free speech in my kitchen any more than I have the right to "freedom of assembly" in your bedroom. (which is also "regulated" by the government---by the POLICE no less!).

[palmer]

Politicians and religious advocates have free speech rights on the street. They can even use a bullhorn as one did outside my office one day. If I connected a wire from his microphone to a speaker in my house, I have no right to tell him to stop. But I can ask him to stop, or get rid of the wire, or turn off the speaker...