{"id":133733,"date":"2017-06-26T19:11:04","date_gmt":"2017-06-27T01:11:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2017\/06\/26\/consumers-actually-win-for-the-moment-on-ringless-voicemail-spam.html"},"modified":"2017-06-26T19:11:04","modified_gmt":"2017-06-27T01:11:04","slug":"consumers-actually-win-for-the-moment-on-ringless-voicemail-spam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2017\/06\/26\/consumers-actually-win-for-the-moment-on-ringless-voicemail-spam.html","title":{"rendered":"Consumers actually win (for the moment) on ringless voicemail spam"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The company that was petitioning the FCC claiming that pushing messages into your voicemail shouldn&#39;t be considered a &quot;phone call&quot; covered by the Do Not Call list has dropped its efforts. <\/p>\n<p>That having been said, the Republican National Committee&#39;s arguments in the case that they have a First Amendment right to push messages into your voicemail (just like they can ignore the Do Not Call list to call you just as you&#39;re sitting down to dinner) does not bode well.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"sm2wp\"><p>\n<a style='display:inline;' href='https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/information-technology\/2017\/06\/ringless-voicemail-spam-wont-be-exempt-from-anti-robocall-rules\/'><br \/>\n<img src='https:\/\/lh3.googleusercontent.com\/proxy\/rTYN9OBRr2MjJIjdj8oMwoGWu77Ffnw80wENtINMXyGtuyHr3RzMnWuSquGl8ckr7ECtCw8iPC0Pz_05WhBIE7hrbxDDqIwi1iwVMhU8IL9pEYBJj2QTQAkRQeZLMpm4uOgRlB0=w506-h910' border='0' style='max-width:650px;'\/><br \/>\n<\/a><br \/>\n<span style='font-size:large;'><a href='https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/information-technology\/2017\/06\/ringless-voicemail-spam-wont-be-exempt-from-anti-robocall-rules\/'>Ringless voicemail spam won&rsquo;t be exempt from anti-robocall rules<\/a><\/span><br \/>\nAfter heavy opposition, robocall company gives up attempt to avoid FCC rules.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span style='font-size:small;'><a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/+DaveHill47\/posts\/FGTf48ydnm3'>View on Google+<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The company that was petitioning the FCC claiming that pushing messages into your voicemail shouldn&#39;t be considered a &quot;phone call&quot; covered by the Do Not Call list has dropped its efforts. That having been said, the Republican National Committee&#39;s arguments in the case that they have a First Amendment right to push messages into your &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2017\/06\/26\/consumers-actually-win-for-the-moment-on-ringless-voicemail-spam.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Consumers actually win (for the moment) on ringless voicemail spam&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-133733","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":133681,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2017\/06\/15\/partisanship-and-personal-voice-mail.html","url_meta":{"origin":133733,"position":0},"title":"Partisanship and personal voice mail","author":"***Dave","date":"Thu 15-Jun-17 7:12am","format":false,"excerpt":"Congressional Democrats are pushing the FCC to say that current do-not-call lists apply not just to phone calls that ring, but backdoor voice mails that just magically \"appear.\" That stands in contrast to the RNC, which has not only carved out the right of political organizations (cough, like itself) to\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;~PlusPosts&quot;","block_context":{"text":"~PlusPosts","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/plusposts"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":133527,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2017\/05\/23\/the-gop-wants-to-fill-your-mobile-voicemail-with-spam.html","url_meta":{"origin":133733,"position":1},"title":"The GOP wants to fill your mobile voicemail with spam","author":"***Dave","date":"Tue 23-May-17 8:02pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Ringless. 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