Do not call us, and we will not call you
The House today, in one of its biggest acts of clarity in recent memory, approved legislation backing the "Do Not Call" registry. A judge ruled yesterday to overturn the "Do Not Call" registry arguing that the FCC had gone too far in protecting the privacy of the American people.
Verbal Jazz is having quite a hard time trying to figure where the judge was coming from with his ruling in support of the invasive telemarketing industry, the only reasonable argument being that people will lose jobs. I will take the cruel route with this one: if you are qualified to be asking for Mr. Or Mrs. Schmoe in order to tell them about a product they do not want or need, especially when they had already registered with a national registry that says, "Do not call me because you will get no business from me," making the whole point of your calling them busy work anyway (and what company wants to pay for busy work?), then you are qualified to make business-to-business calls to drum up new interest in whatever your new company has to offer.
So, was this judge being bought off by the industry, or trying to endear himself to the Bush administration in acting as though the right to privacy does not exist?
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The House today, in one of its biggest acts of clarity in recent memory, approved legislation backing the "Do Not Call" registry. A judge ruled yesterday to overturn the "Do Not Call" registry arguing that the FCC had gone too far in protecting the privacy of the American people.
Verbal Jazz is having quite a hard time trying to figure where the judge was coming from with his ruling in support of the invasive telemarketing industry, the only reasonable argument being that people will lose jobs. I will take the cruel route with this one: if you are qualified to be asking for Mr. Or Mrs. Schmoe in order to tell them about a product they do not want or need, especially when they had already registered with a national registry that says, "Do not call me because you will get no business from me," making the whole point of your calling them busy work anyway (and what company wants to pay for busy work?), then you are qualified to make business-to-business calls to drum up new interest in whatever your new company has to offer.
So, was this judge being bought off by the industry, or trying to endear himself to the Bush administration in acting as though the right to privacy does not exist?
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