Sometimes good news happens

[Gonz]

The US Supreme Court, without comment, let stand a 10th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals decision that upheld the registry of more than 57 million phone numbers as a reasonable government attempt to safeguard personal privacy and reduce telemarketing abuse.

The Do-Not-Call list is granted freedom.

 

[Angry Again]

The Do-Not-Call list is granted freedom.

What were they supposed to do? Sell them to some marketing firm and claim it was a great tax income for Americans? Come on it is just common sense to pass this.

 

[Leslie]

I'm gonna get lynched for this but what the hell.

I think that as a point of law, the marketers in a purely legal sense should've won on this. This seems to me (admittedly one of the great ignorant unwashed, but nevertheless... ) to have been politically motivated more than based on law. Of course, on a betterment of society thing, the List wins hands down. But for a country purporting to be one based on freedom, there is sure a whole hell of a lot of limiting going on.

 

[Gato_Solo]

I'm gonna get lynched for this but what the hell.

I think that as a point of law, the marketers in a purely legal sense should've won on this. This seems to me (admittedly one of the great ignorant unwashed, but nevertheless... ) to have been politically motivated more than based on law. Of course, on a betterment of society thing, the List wins hands down. But for a country purporting to be one based on freedom, there is sure a whole hell of a lot of limiting going on.

Very astute, but you forget one thing...invasion of privacy. It's one thing for a store to call a 'regular' customer to advise them of a coming sale, but quite another for a phone bank to do the same. One is 'invited' through regular commerce, while the second is an annoyance.