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You know that there’s been a sea change in the national consciousness when, even under a business-friendly GOP administration, the FTC declares new telemarketing regulations<\/a>.<\/p>\n

These are to include a national <\/i>do-not-call registry, require transmission of Caller ID info, and “limit the number of ‘abandoned’ calls that hang up or leave people listening to silence on the line.”<\/p>\n

The Direct Marketing Association, of course, claims this is all unlawful and to challenge every last inch of it in court. Bastards.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

You know that there’s been a sea change in the national consciousness when, even under a business-friendly GOP administration, the FTC declares new telemarketing regulations. 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