A couple of points.
You don't own line that the phone is tied to. You are paying to use someone else's system.
If you get cable, do you require that your cable company block signals from stations you don't watch? Why not?
I really don't have much of a problem with them. I politely say "No, thank you. Please do not call again." Not really a big deal is it?
Right, I am PAYING.
If you get cable, do you require that your cable company block signals from stations you don't watch? Why not?
This hair-splitting is absurd. The unwanted channels do not intrude, they do not turn themselves on by themselves, nor do they interrupt dinner, nor do they even exist, for all practical purposes, unless I want them to.
People HATE demands on what little free time they have. No hair-splitting or straw man arguments will change that. It's a fact. And as more and more companies have jumped onboard using intrusive techniques like spam and telespam, people hate it more and more.
The responses to the DNCL proves this. People's rights of being left alone trump any fictitious employment figures from the DMA lobby.