| Comment Number: | OL-107167 |
| Received: | 12/6/2004 10:39:05 PM |
| Organization: | |
| Commenter: | Robert Peckman |
| State: | VA |
| 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:
While we have the freedom to speak, we do not have the right to make the intended listener pay for it, or even listen. When a solicitor fills my answering machine with his free speech so that I am not able to receive the messages that I purchased it for, my rights are being violated. When a solicitor uses my fax machine and supplies, waking me up in the middle of the night to do it, my rights are being infringed. I expect the law to protect my rights as well as the solicitor. His right to speak must be preserved, but I should not have pay. He has to negotiate with a newspaper to print an ad, or with a station to broadcast an ad. Why should I have to pay to allow him to use my equipment without permission?