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DOJ and 4 States Want $24 Billion In Fines From Dish Network For Telemarketing (arstechnica.com)
walterbyrd writes: The DOJ as well as Ohio, Illinois, California, and North Carolina say that Dish disregarded federal laws on call etiquette. US lawyers are asking for $900 million in civil penalties, and the four states are asking for $23.5 billion in fines, according to the Denver Post. 'Laws against phoning people on do-not-call lists and using recorded messages allow penalties of up to $16,000 per violation,' the Post added.
The first amendment right is a right to speak. Its not a right to force others to listen.
No first amendment rights are being violated here. There is a do not call list that people opt into that means "This person does not wish to recieve your phone calls". If you think that allowing people to be forced into hearing others speech is OK, then fine, but lets not pretend that position is about defending rights.
Excuse the Unicode crap in my posts. That's an apostrophe, and slashdot is busted.
But if the Republicans rulers of a corporation hire thousands of co-conspirators to call the people in order to prevent us from communicating by calling us and tieing up our communication devices thus not allowing us to communicate, then they have taken our voice. They are taking our voice.
Actually, Congress has written all of these laws to make an exception for... Congress. Political fundraisers can call you all they want.