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Dish Network Violated Do-Not-Call 57 Million Times
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.
I'm sorry, I don't get it.
You seem to be implying that I should care that you, an admitted telemarketer, might be put out of a job along with four others.
I just don't understand your position.
I believe his post indicates he is an installer, not a telemarketer. Huge difference as he would be the guy climbing on the roof for people who do want DISH's service.
Dish's market cap is $34 billion. If they fine them $16,000 for of the 57 million calls then Dish certainly won't be making anymore...
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.
Snopes.com: Free 'Obamaphones'
Guess how long that took to find? Less time than it took to type this message.
The law of unintended consequences would kick in... because the minute the government goes around taking companies, everyone else sees this...
Then the government discovered what a great money maker this is, and goes after all companies for anything they might be doing wrong...
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What you are suggesting has actually been done, in other countries... it isn't pretty...
Countries like the US with asset forfeiture laws creating a special interest group and cottage industry around the legal fiction that your assets are a person and you have no legal standing if they're 'incarcerated'. My introduction was while I was renewing my sales tax license. I overheard a conversation next to me. The person had been pulled over and arrested on invented drug charges which were thrown out in court because they were baseless (it sounded like friends pooled money for a defense lawyer). In the meantime the State had seized and sold his car, and taken his life savings from his bank accounts. The clerk was explaining to him that 'It's our policy to retain those funds after trial'.
So the state got paid, and the lawyers got paid - and now we know why he was pulled over for 'waste of time' charges...
Apparently just taking everything is only a good idea if you're too small to make large political contributions.