How to Handle Political Telemarketing?

TheOtherChimeraTwin writes "Slashdot has touched on telemarketing in the past. The No Call lists work pretty well for me except for a flood of political calls. They guys use automated dialers with recorded messages and use bogus caller id information, calling back multiple times. Political surveys are done by real people, but they hang up on me if I stray from answering their questions. Does anyone have a solution better than just hanging up on these slime? I'd just vote for their opponent, but sometimes I'm getting called by both sides. The distraction of these calls is annoying and the problem is only going to get worse."

Comments

Re:best of both worlds

[Mr. Byaninch]

Uh, read my post. READ MY POST. Oh, and READ MY POST. And maybe READ MY POST. There must be something you can't understand in it. So READ MY POST AGAIN!. Then go away.

Re:a word from an insider

[thdexter]

"Fucking moron," huh. I don't have a J.D. yet, but I believe that's an argumentum ad hominem.

It is, in fact, my right to call people and to knock on their doors. Similarly they have a right to not answer their phone (if they're concerned about per-minute charges), and they have a right to not answer their door, and they have a right to hang up, and they have a right to slam the door in my face. They don't have a right to censor my beliefs, they don't have a right to assault me. They do have a right to their own beliefs.

If you don't think that a freedom of speech right held by telemarketers is different at all from the right to petition one's countrymen for better government, maybe you should try petitioning China or North Korea or Saudi Arabia for citizenship. Oh, wait, you espouse a right to be left alone. Sorry, I don't know what to recommend to you, then. Maybe there's some vacancies in Canada, or Greenland, or the Antarctic.