{"id":15154,"date":"2003-03-12T13:34:00","date_gmt":"2003-03-12T13:34:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2003\/03\/12\/do-not-call-law-signed\/"},"modified":"2003-03-12T13:34:00","modified_gmt":"2003-03-12T13:34:00","slug":"do-not-call-law-signed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2003\/03\/12\/do-not-call-law-signed\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Do Not Call&#8221; Law Signed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>CBS reports that on Tuesday W &ldquo;signed <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/stories\/2003\/03\/11\/politics\/main543573.shtml\" target=\"_blank\">legislation creating a national &lsquo;do-not-call&rsquo; list<\/a> intended to help consumers block unwanted telemarketing calls.  The bill allows the Federal Trade Commission to collect fees from telemarketers to fund the registry, which will cost about $16 million in its first year. The do-not-call program should begin operation by summer.&rdquo;  It&rsquo;s about time!   I just hope that it works as intended, because the telemarketing industry has always found ways to ply its unwanted wares in the past despite similar measures.<\/p>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/tracker\/3501955-90561338?l=www.driko.org%2Findex_blogger.html\" alt=\"\" \/><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CBS reports that on Tuesday W &ldquo;signed legislation creating a national &lsquo;do-not-call&rsquo; list intended to help consumers block unwanted telemarketing calls. The bill allows the Federal Trade Commission to collect fees from telemarketers to fund the registry, which will cost about $16 million in its first year. The do-not-call program should begin operation by summer.&rdquo; &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2003\/03\/12\/do-not-call-law-signed\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;&#8220;Do Not Call&#8221; Law Signed&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[118],"class_list":["post-15154","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-imported"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15154","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15154"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15154\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15154"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15154"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15154"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}