| Comment Number: | OL-106340 |
| Received: | 12/6/2004 12:35:44 PM |
| Organization: | |
| Commenter: | Ronald L. Lyons |
| State: | CA |
| 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:
Whereas, our unlisted phone number is on your do not call registry, and we pay a monthly fee for an extra level of privacy in the form an unlisted phone number to a utility your commission regulates, we kindly propose that your agreeing to loopholes, which involve bypassing rulings your commission instituted for the protecting said privacy, such as pre-recorded messages delivered by telemarketing methods, is not only inappropriate, but also a conflict of interest on your part. And whereas, your commission is responsible for regulating trade not marketing it, and the subject of a citizen's telephone privacy supersedes any other fiduciary or political requirement your commission feels is important in the regulation of trade. And whereas, your agency is supported by taxes derived from fees and charges passed through the phone utilities you regulate your commission should rather be an advocate for the telephone using citizen, not a marketing arm of the Voice Mail Broadcasting Company, any other telephone marketing group, or any mass marketing corporation. The presumption that our U.S. Constitution is a government by the people, of the people, and for the people can not be abrogated by proposed schemes that defacto create a government by a corporation, of a corporation, and for a corporation. Therefore, be informed, as a citizen in good standing of the United States of America, I oppose, and thus request the application for sending recorded messages to existing customers, or by extension, any other prospects be denied. In addition, I suggest an additional 'Do Not Auto-call List' or an automatic extension of the original 'Do Not Call List' to include the above, unless a phone user notifies you othewise by means of an opt-out request on your website. Sincerely yours, Ronald L. Lyons