| Comment Number: | OL-101110 |
| Received: | 11/27/2004 5:39:58 PM |
| Organization: | |
| Commenter: | Sean Kilpatrick |
| State: | GA |
| Subject: | Trade Regulation Rule on Telemarketing Sales |
| Title: | Notice of Proposed Rulemaking, Request for Comment |
| CFR Citation: | 16 CFR Part 310 |
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Comments:
Please understand that _I_ am paying for _my_ telephone line/number/connection to the world, not any member of the Direct Marketing Association (DMA). I do NOT want to have pre-recorded messages left on my answering machine (which reduces the time available for messages I need to receive) under any circumstances. Given the outrageous behavior by members of the DMA in the past, there can be no justification for relaxing the rules for them in any way. Perhaps members of the FTC have not been harassed by ringing telephones that have nothing but a dead line when answered, but I have -- and I am sick of it. Both telephone lines into this house have been put of the national and Georgia "No Not Call" lists. The number of unwanted calls has been reduced, but not eliminated. We still average seven or eight such calls a month -- most of them illegal, and all of them unwanted. Please do not be confused by false claims of "Free Speech." This is NOT a Free Speech issue. They have a right to their speech. But I have an equal right to not hear it. If they are spouting their garbage from a soapbox in the park, I can walk away. But when they insist on spouting their "speech" at me over _my_ telephone, when I am within the private walls of _my_ home, that speech is not protected by the Constitution. Why? Because I can not walk away from it. I have a right to peace and quiet within the walls of my own home. Government agents need a warrant to enter my home. So should salesmen. Sean Kilpatrick