To be clear, yes, my Representative in the US House does this. And I'm never in the mood to listen to the whole message, so I pretty quickly erase it. And I'm a guy with a landline. Imagine all the youngsters and not-so-youngsters who are getting all those calls on their cell phones. Yeah, I don't think you're making any friends that way.
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When I read your post about robocalls my first reaction was that robocalling was illegal for cell phones in particular and illegal for everyone else if you'd registered with the national registry. It turns out I was both right and wrong. They do need written consent but big companies contract marketers who either ignore the rules or presume consent by using one real consent that they can sell to others. The sheer number of robocalls in the US made the 2 or 3 weekly messages we get from the Conservative Party look like nothing.
Government regulations say that a telemarketing call is only legal to a cell phone or residential line if the recipient of the call has provided “prior express written consent” to that call.
Unfortunately, calls from members of government don't have to follow any rules. You're wise to have your machine screen your calls while cell phone owners are doomed to suffer.
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