| Comment Number: | OL-113779 |
| Received: | 1/10/2005 2:23:28 PM |
| Organization: | n/a |
| Commenter: | Michael Sereg |
| 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:
In my perception and opinion! Summary: Business has no right to use my property for any reason without my FREELY given consent including supposed consent extracted via contract tied to some other purpose. End of Summary. Telemarketers under whatever guise still abuse the do-not-call-list without these additional modifications in favor of business. I still receive some non-political, non-charity, non-current-business-relationship calls inspite of being on the list prior to its activation. Further and for example!, business is hyper-sensitive about an employee's use of business property including but not limited to time. Rightly, so! I am as well hyper-sensitive about the use of any of my property including but not limited to time by any business for any reason. Therefore, I consider any telemarketing call by any entity without my express and explicit (not-implicit permission, not coerced as part of any contract or business dealing, not by any law or regulation by any entity) and FREELY given consent as theft of one or more aspects of my property (unfortunately, it can not be criminally prosecuted as theft unlike the use of business property by an employee). This is similar to how business views and treats the use of business property for personal use by an employee. I therefore propose that instead of a Do-Not-Call-List that a You-May-Call-List--that is, a business is permitted to call only numbers on that list. Any number NOT in the list may NOT be contacted by any business for any reason. Any contact can be, at the receipients discretion, criminally prosecute the executives of the business. The driving force: the long list of abuse as well as direct and indirect financial losses people have suffered at the hands of business. Yet, there is clearly no real attempt to rein in business and their abuses such as there are continued attempts at the abuse of and for example--fire arms. If the FTC is not well acquainted with the list, it should be--Consider Arthur Anderson, Enron, Tyco, Adelphia, WorldCom, MCI, I forget the Wall Street names, etc., don't forget the 1/2 trillion dollar S&L scandal about which little was done except force the taxpayers to save all of the businesses and thus themselves--the list is long and growing. Business will argue, complain, etc about the costs of doing business, (use the magic fear--loss of jobs) competition, calls from outside the country, etc. Business may ultimately go to the WTO to force these rules out. I do not have any magic answer. These are my thoughts. But business does not have any right to use my property for any of their purposes regardless of how noble the purpose may be considered. This is all I will say at the moment. Mike Sereg