| Comment Number: | OL-100168 |
| Received: | 11/24/2004 1:03:13 PM |
| Organization: | Private Citizen |
| Commenter: | John Campbell |
| State: | TN |
| Subject: | Trade Regulation Rule on Telemarketing Sales |
| Title: | Notice of Proposed Rulemaking, Request for Comment |
| CFR Citation: | 16 CFR Part 310 |
| No Attachments |
Comments:
I oppose allowing telemarketers to make pre-recorded "robot" calls. Telemarketing is an abuse of the privacy of citizens. It keeps me from using a fax machine because ads take up all the paper and it destroys domestic privacy by an unending barrage--and the assault metphor is intentional--of unwanted calls. These people are the enemies of civic communication and the joys of innocent conversations among friends and family by making phone calls objects of dread.