Court blocks Do Not Call Registry

KwitkoKwitko Sheriff of Banning (Retired)By the thing near the stuff Icrontian
edited September 2003 in Science & Tech
Sept 24 — A federal judge has ruled that the Federal Trade Commission overstepped its authority in creating the national do-not-call list against telemarketers. The ruling Tuesday came in a lawsuit brought by telemarketers who challenged the list of 50 million people who said they do not want to receive business solicitation calls. The list was to go into effect Oct. 1.

http://msnbc.com/news/971221.asp?0sl=-41

Comments

  • Mt_GoatMt_Goat Head Cheezy Knob Pflugerville (north of Austin) Icrontian
    edited September 2003
    Talk about something that really sucks! Tim Searcy really has his head up his heatsink if he thinks America is going to take it. Does he really think 50 million people put their names on the "Do Not Call list" because we like them? I sure hope to see a lot of people send postal mail email and phone calls to all the members of the Houseand Senate as well as the FCC, FTC and the courts.:rant::rant:
  • leishi85leishi85 Grand Rapids, MI Icrontian
    edited September 2003
    ooh this is just GREAT, damn telemarketers
  • muddocktormuddocktor
    edited September 2003
    This ruling is just what this smilie says!:bs::bs:

    Telemarketers suck donkey ballz and get off looking at goatse online.:rant::rant: I hope every telemarketer in America puts this stupid@ss judge on their call list so that they can bug his @ss every night for a year.:rant::rant:

    I wish someone could find out this judges phone number so that all 50 million of us that signed up for this list could call the b@st@rd and give him an earful.:rant::rant::rant:

    STUPID RETARDED JUDGES!!!!
  • LincLinc Owner Detroit Icrontian
    edited September 2003
    If Federal judges determined that the FTC overstepped its boundaries, then there's a good chance it did. Judges can't make decisions based on what is popular, they have to make them based on written law. The judge did his duty... his name may even be on the list for all we know.

    That said... Congress had better get it's arse moving and make it law or it would be the loudest possible announcement that it is totally in the back pocket of Corporate America.
  • Straight_ManStraight_Man Geeky, in my own way Naples, FL Icrontian
    edited September 2003
    There is something interesting about the District Court's decision. The judge said the FTC had no authority, but the FCC did. When the thing was established, it was supposed to be adminned by BOTH the FTC and the FCC.

    Solution, transfer stewardship to the FCC. Done deal.

    The telemarketters essentially see their industry vaporizing, and are like Microsoft using legal fine technicalities to block or delay something the public seems to want (after all, over 50.5 million people signed up for this Do-Not-Call List). In this case, the FCC HAS authority to make the list effective, the FTC alone does NOT-- though it can regulate ads legally, which is what the telemarketing calls are also as well as aggressive sales calls.

    Second, this is a District Judge, lowest Federal level. I WOULD expect to see this go at least two levels higher. Also, in this case "block" means an injunction, not a full destruction and final order to not do.

    Expect out of this a LOT of public people who want privacy to ask the FCC to take the list over. There is NOTHING in the lawbooks that says the FTC cannot gather volunarily given marketting preference data, so the data itself can be used. They simply exceeded their admin scope in trying to promise THEY would enforce telecom rules-- FCC's ballpark and not theirs.

    John.
  • danball1976danball1976 Wichita Falls, TX
    edited September 2003
    I put my name on there as soon as I heard about the list, which happened to be a day after it was annoucned....

    I like this smiley:
    >:rant:
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