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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. What about telegraphs? by moehoward · · Score: -1, Troll


    Oh, shut up. Anyone with a public FAX number just needs to get slapped anymore. Give me a break. From Fortune 100 companies I work for to 1-man shops, NOBODY I work with has an always-on-public FAX number.

    It's like bitching about smoke signal spam. Which, actually, really used to piss me off until my all-protecting government made it all go away. Please make it all go away, government... I'm so helpless.

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    "If you want to improve, be content to be thought foolish and stupid." - Epictetus
  2. Liberal Bullshit by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    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."

    More wah wah bush wah wah big government wah wah.

    More crying liberal pussydom, grow up, and shut the fuck up.

    -Laz

  3. It stops when you manage to ... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    ... elect another government.

    But wait, aren't elections unamerican?

  4. Re:Or more usefully... by kimvette · · Score: 0, Troll

    What the parent said.

    They are only interested in stuffing their own pockets rather than listening to their constituents. I live in Taxachusetts and I wonder in amazement at who the hell is voting for Mr. Drunk Kennedy - I do not know anyone who votes for him, but obviously a lot of people do. He doesn't do a damn thing for this state.

    Ditto for John Kerry, who is infamous for missing 1/2 to 2/3 of his meetings. But, given what damage Bush has done to this country, having the President miss 2/3 of his meetings would not be an entirely bad thing; it'd significantly limit the amount of damage one man can do to this once-great nation.

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    The Christian Right is Neither (Christian nor right). See: Matthew 23, Matthew 25, Ezekiel 16:48-50