Tag: state legislatures

The FTC has finally done something I can really appreciate: Specifically, the FTC changed its venerable Telemarketing Sales Rule (TSR) to prohibit, as of Sept. 2009, telemarketing calls that deliver prerecorded messages, unless a consumer has agreed to accept such calls from a given caller/seller. Between now and 2009, telemarketers must provide an obvious, easy […]

Comics is not the only thing Ted Rall is good at. His columns are great for putting the current state of things into perspective After a few brief decades of social progress the United States has lurched back into the dark ages of torture, concentration camps and police harassment of its scapegoats and undesirables–current members: […]