Let's see, how many errors are there in this statement.
First no one is restricting the telemarketers' free specch rights.
What they are being restricted from is theft of service. They have no right to use my service and my equiment against my will - and that's what they're doing with their solicitation calls. Door-to-door salesman have no right to trespass on my posted property, and telescum have no right to steal the use of my phone service.
Second, goobermint in this instance is protecting my right to privacy, a proper function.
Telemarketers and spammers are THIEVES. Nothing less.
If the telemarketer can’t call to speak his right to speak couldn’t be more infringed upon.
CNN radio network “uses my equipment against my will” at the top of the hour when I listen to Rush. I may choose to keep it tooned just like I may choose to pick up the phone.
The right to privacy is implied, not specifically stated. And 20 years from now a Gore administration might decide to invoke a religious do not call list or a political do not call list or a even move it out of the voice arena to protect you from “annoying” right wing hate speech, forcing it to be flagged on the web so that your privacy can be protected by your browser and you don’t stumble into a page that “steals your service.” There’s no Constitutional role for this.