FC: Bush signs bill creating national do-not-call-list

[Declan McCullagh <declan () well com>]

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Subject: National Do-Not-Call List is law]
From: Jason <jaegner () mindspring com>
To: declan () well org
Date: 11 Mar 2003 20:31:59 -0500

Declan,

Apparently, it's become law.

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2003/03/11/politics/main543573.shtml

Naturally:
"Telemarketers say the registry will devastate their business. The
Direct Marketing Association, an industry group, filed a lawsuit against
the FTC last month on grounds the registry unlawfully restricts free
speech."

Someone should remind the Direct Marketing Association that their right
to free speech ends at my front door in much the same way that one's
right to swing one's fist ends at another person's face.  And if this
law will "devastate their business", I submit that perhaps they were in
the wrong business to begin with.

--Jason




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