[Held_to_Ransom]

You have complete control over how your property is used. You can use it to prop a door open. You can use it as a paperweight, whatever. But you can't use it to talk to people on the phone systems we all share without sharing the common network and systems we all share. Those don't belong to you and you don't have the right to tell other people what they can or can not do with them. You have ample means to stop all telemarket calls yourself. Turn off the phone, screen calls from those who block their numbers, use a phone machine, turn off the ringer etc. All of these are the equivalent of putting up a 'do not trespass' sign. Inflicting more stupid bureaucracy on the country and taking jobs away from those who need them are not.

[Held_to_Ransom]

Consider this analogy. Let's say you have a well for your water. It's on your property, only you use it. That well goes down to the watertable and the water under your house. No one else can come in and use your well, but your neighbor can use his well to pump the water out of the ground beneath your house. Although the watertable sits on your property, it's not solely yours, and you don't have a right to stop other people from using it.

[steve-b]

But you can't use it to talk to people on the phone systems we all share without sharing the common network and systems we all share. Those don't belong to you and you don't have the right to tell other people what they can or can not do with them.

You can't drive your car around on the road system we all share without sharing the common network and systems we all share. Those don't belong to you and you don't have the right to tell other people what they can or can not do with them. If somebody wants to drive up to your house and park in your driveway, tough -- if you can't get your own car out, then you need to build a wider driveway.