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Re:I won a suit against a party that sent me an unsolicited ... by tptacek on Thursday July 28, 2022 @04:37PM (#32269810)
You will never be able to do so; campaign calls are exempt from FCC rulemaking not because the FCC is particularly warm to political campaigns (though maybe they are), but because the Constitution forbids them from restricting political speech in this manner.

Municipalities run into a similar problem with those awful circulars that pile up on your front stoop: ordinances to prohibit them have been struct down as unconstitutional. And that's not even political speech, generally!

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Re:I won a suit against a party that sent me an unsolicited ... by tedunangst on Thursday July 28, 2022 @05:11PM (#32270160)
Stand by while I make the case that politicians filling my phone with texts and voice messages is a violation of the third amendment.
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Re:I won a suit against a party that sent me an unsolicited ... by dataflow on Thursday July 28, 2022 @06:56PM (#32271051)
> because the Constitution forbids them from restricting political speech in this manner

What if texts cost you money per-message though? Isn't that why most places get permission before texting you? Do politicians have a constitutional right to drain your money this way?

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Re:I won a suit against a party that sent me an unsolicited ... by Teever on Thursday July 28, 2022 @08:25PM (#32271676)
Freedom of speech isnt freedom to make people listen. If I tell someone to stop calling me and they dont its harassment.
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Re:I won a suit against a party that sent me an unsolicited ... by Archelaos on Thursday July 28, 2022 @04:54PM (#32269977)
> You will never be able to do so

Could the constitution not be amended, at least in theory? Or the supreme court create a new interpretation?

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Re:I won a suit against a party that sent me an unsolicited ... by dragonwriter on Thursday July 28, 2022 @05:57PM (#32270573)
> Could the constitution not be amended, at least in theory?

Sure, but amending the Constitution for the purpose of permitting the government to impose greater limits on political speech is...going to be a hard sell for a lot of people, and have a high risk if successful of having pretty severe unintended (for non-autocratic supporters of whatever the particular measure is) consequences.

> Or the supreme court create a new interpretation?

Easier than passing an amendment, similar downsides.

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Re:I won a suit against a party that sent me an unsolicited ... by Spooky23 on Thursday July 28, 2022 @05:16PM (#32270220)
Not in our generation. The current thought process of conservative jurists is that money is speech and the founders wanted corporate entities to have unencumbered speech.
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