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Dish Network Violated Do-Not-Call 57 Million Times

Posted by samzenpus on from the please-stop-calling dept.

lightbox32 writes Dish Network has been found guilty of violating the Do Not Call list on 57 million separate occasions. They were also found liable for abandoning or causing telemarketers to abandon nearly 50 million outbound telephone calls, in violation of the abandoned-call provision of the Federal Trade Commission's Telemarketing Sales Rule. Penalties for infringing on the Do Not Call list can be up to a whopping $16,000 for each outbound call.

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  1. Re:Cardholder services by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    It should be illegal to spoof caller ID. It's fraud.

    Fraud is already illegal. Perhaps we should enforce that.

    Sorry, enforcing that got defunded because big government is evil.

    Wrong.

    Fraud enforcement got defunded because that evil big government has decided to stay in power by handing out Obamaphones to bribe low-information voters into keeping the people in power.

    Entitlement spending makes up at least half US government expenditures, and almost 1/8th of the entire US economy..

    And that's why we can't afford to go after Dish Network for breaking the law.

    Or even keep our roads and bridges in good repair.