Telemarketers Sue to Block Do-Not-Call List

chumpieboy writes "A story on Yahoo tells about about the DMA's attempts to stop a national DoNotCall list, essentially claiming that Opt Out is not a viable model for telemarketers. Yet they claim that Opt Out is a viable model for email marketing?"

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Re:yeah right

[schon]

Where in the Constitution is Freedom of Privacy stated? You may be able to infer it from other amendments but it is not nearly as clearly stated as Freedom of Speech.

The previous poster is clearly in error. "Freedom of speech" is a diversion - this has absolutely nothing to do with free speech.

"Freedom of speech" means "you can say what you want." It does not mean "you can force people to listen to you."

If someone says "I don't want to hear from you", you can't force them to listen by claiming "free speech." Since that is exactly what a DNC list is, the whole "free speech" argument is BS.

Re:fantasy system:

[qoncept]

Thats great, except... I did telemarketing while trying to find a real job for about a month (be nice, I was a bad telemarketer - if you said no I left you alone and got yelled at by my supervisor for it). It sucked, but not because of the people I talked to. I just couldn't stand sitting there all damn day without a chance to move around (it's quite high paced).

Think about it, though. I talked to probably an average of 500 people a day. 400 of them were as rude as they probably ever are in their lives. 250 were pissed that I was calling them. 100 yelled at me. 50 tried to be clever and expected to trigger some sort of emotion in me, and 0 did.

By the way, if I was lucky, maybe 3 or so of those 500 would end up with a shiny new Discover Platinum card.