The "do not call" registry is the phone equivalent of a "No soliciting" sign on the front door. A man (or woman) should have the right to keep his home free of telemarketers invading their privacy.
I don't have the knowledge or the wherewithall but I love to see the energy of the computer virus designers create a boiler room call virus.
Incorrect analogy. The TM call is like my headlights shining through your window from a public road. Don't like it? Build a fence. You have signed up for a service which allows anyone to call you so you either need to get a different service or a screening device.
The government has no business protecting anything people willingly choose to make vulnerable. If you parade around your house naked and leave the blinds up, you have no right to expect the government to insure no one sees you and invades the "sanctity" of your private home with their eyes.
A telephone is a kind of window on the world. There are things people can do themselves to prevent telephone solicitation. They are not necessarily convenient, but neither is having to pull down your own blinds. Maybe you want the government to do that for you too.
You install a telephone you are porviding an entrance to your home that is available to anyone with a phone. Anybody can call your phone. That's the nature of a telephone and you knew that when you installed it, and it is one of the reasons you installed it. But, like all other useful things in this world, it can be used in ways you might not like. Like the actual door to your house, anyone can come to the it, unless you take measures to prevent that. So, with your phone anyone can come to you via that, but, just as you can always shut your door, you can always hang up.
Why does everyone think they must have the government eliminate every possible inconvenience and discomfort from their lives for them. And why do they think they have the right to force other people to pay for it. That's the real intrusion.
This is just another surrender of personal responsiblity to the government and another intrusion of government on business and individuals forced to pay for other's convenience. Like all the other oppresive measures, they exist because some people like them, and really don't give a damn about freedom, or liberty, or being responsible for their own lives.
Hank
NO! The "No Soliciting" sign is bought, paid for, and put up by the individual protected by it, the "do not call" registry has to be paid for by someone else. But you don't seem to think taking someone else's money to pay for your convenience is an intrusion.
Hank