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FCC Opens Flood Gates for Junk Faxes

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the let-the-faxing-begin dept.

EmagGeek writes "The FCC implemented a Report and Order on Reconsideration (R&O on Recon) that uses some of the same exemptions for junk faxes that currently exist for the Do Not Call list. The new rules specify that junk faxers can claim an Existing Business Relationship (EBR) to justify flooding you with junk faxes. Under the new rules, a junk faxer could visit your website and call that an existing business relationship. The new rules also prevent junk-fax trapping, in which someone posts their fax number on the internet, waits for junk faxes, then files suit against the faxers under the TCPA. With all of the government-sponsored selling out of The People that has been going on in the past, say, 6 or so years, one has to wonder when or even if it is going to stop."

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  1. OT: Your sig by jonnythan · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    I don't get it. Explain?

  2. Re:Fun day by Harik · · Score: 1, Offtopic
    It'd be pretty horrible if we had a government that would cold-bloodly shoot women and children in a battle between religeons. Such as Scientology using their newly-aquired front the 'Cult Awareness Network' to pressure the BATF into wiping out David Koresh and the Branch Davidians.

    Or a government that will kill your wife while she's holding a baby, as punishment for not cooperating with them. Ruby Ridge.

    Yeah, it'd be just peachy if the widespread broadcast of those atrocities could spur people to get their fat lazy asses off their couches. But hey, Friends is coming up next!