FTC Continues Going After Robocallers
from the good-news dept
Earlier this year, the FTC started going after those annoying and misleading car warranty robocallers, and I've noticed that -- for the most part -- I've stopped receiving such calls. Instead, I've been getting lots of robocalls about credit card "interest rate reduction" programs. So, it's nice to see the FTC is cracking down on those as well (noting, in case you didn't know, that most of those offers are total scams). Now we'll see what sort of robocallers show up next. Still, it does feel like the FTC is starting to respond to these types of things much more quickly, which is a good thing.Thank you for reading this Techdirt post. With so many things competing for everyone’s attention these days, we really appreciate you giving us your time. We work hard every day to put quality content out there for our community.
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I want to be an asshole moderator
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Re: I want to be an asshole moderator
Hmm. I just went and looked in the held comments around the time you posted eight comments complaining about being moderated -- not a single one of which was held. I don't see any comment that was held around that time from you, so I'm not sure what your complaint is.
We do have a spam filter. It catches approximately 10,000 spam comments per day. About once every 3 or 4 days it catches a legit comment. If you happened to have been caught, I apologize, but we usually release such comments after a few hours.
None of that necessitates bombarding the site with bitchy comments about our spam filter. Posting 8 off-topic comments are actually the sort of thing that the spam filter *learns from* and increases your likelihood of the spam filter assuming you're a spammer.
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Re: Re: I want to be an asshole moderator
Posting 8 off-topic comments are actually the sort of thing that the spam filter *learns from* and increases your likelihood of the spam filter assuming you're a spammer.
That Mike Ho is a good one, eh? You make him Employee of the Month Yet?
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Re: I want to be an asshole moderator
I fixed it for you
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I fixed it for you
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Please moderate this comment
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These are funny.
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These are funny.
It is a long established fact that a reader will be distracted by the readable content of a page when looking at its layout. The point of using Lorem Ipsum is that it has a more-or-less normal distribution of letters, as opposed to using 'Content here, content here', making it look like readable English. Many desktop publishing packages and web page editors now use Lorem Ipsum as their default model text, and a search for 'lorem ipsum' will uncover many web sites still in their infancy. Various versions have evolved over the years, sometimes by accident, sometimes on purpose (injected humor and the like).
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ROBOCALLERS ARE INSANE!
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Re: ROBOCALLERS ARE INSANE!
To take a trivial example, which of us ever undertakes laborious physical exercise, except to obtain some advantage from it? But who has any right to find fault with a man who chooses to enjoy a pleasure that has no annoying consequences, or one who avoids a pain that produces no resultant pleasure?
Do you understand?
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You're right in this sense. Sorry if I offended you.
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how is this different?
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Re: how is this different?
Does this make sense?
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You're trying my patience! Just explain to him how all this mistaken idea of denouncing pleasure and praising pain was born and I will give you a complete account of the system.
He has no idea of that which we speak of.
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Re: Re: how is this different?
If you step back, in all actuality, the real teachings of the great explorer of the truth will be the master-builder of human happiness.
And THAT is the problem with your logic and also with cracking down on these parties.
I'm not saying the FTC is wrong, but I am saying that in certain circumstances, owing to the claims of duty or the obligations of business it will frequently occur that pleasures have to be repudiated and annoyances accepted.
The question is if the FTC is right to enforce robocalls or if it's more right to enforce privacy of customer information so it can't be shared between companies.
Doing the latter seems to prevent the former. Am I wrong?
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Employee of the month
The guys that sell a $1000 dollar HDMI cable are really good at what they do.
Seriously who wouldn't buy a better cable to transmit digital signals?
Can that "Mike" beat that?
LoL
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Who'd you piss off Mike?
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New version of this
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