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Re:FCC Considering Banning Transfer of Online Consent Forms by swatcoder on Thursday February 23, 2023 @09:39PM (#34920066)
No, the author is a lawyer specializing in defending companies accused of spamming.

His public position, probably mostly genuine, is that there are good guys and bad guys and he helps protect the good guys from getting hit with tools meant for the bad guys.

Here, he laments that the good guys might get screwed by upcoming regulation and need to speak up and make sure there are carve outs for them.

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Re:FCC Considering Banning Transfer of Online Consent Forms by MBCook on Thursday February 23, 2023 @09:44PM (#34920106)
I’ve had the fun of working with the “but we are the good ones“ kind of spammers before.

Sigh.

Thanks.

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Re:FCC Considering Banning Transfer of Online Consent Forms by xbar on Friday February 24, 2023 @12:39AM (#34921257)
He works for an "industry" that entirely in the schlepping, hording, repackaging and re-schlepping private information for profit.

Disincentivizing this niche of marketing and driving companies to invest and build their own effective leads generators in-house is better for literally everyone but lawyers in the "leads generation industry."

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Re:FCC Considering Banning Transfer of Online Consent Forms by olliej on Friday February 24, 2023 @04:06AM (#34922550)
So from his point of view there is a meaningful difference between two groups of spammers, when both of them are just spammers.
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Re:FCC Considering Banning Transfer of Online Consent Forms by JohnFen on Friday February 24, 2023 @05:21PM (#34930966)
> His public position, probably mostly genuine, is that there are good guys and bad guys

Yes, and I think he's genuine about that. That's how he sleeps at night.

But the reality is that there are bad guys and worse guys.

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