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What about an opt-out? Is it suppression of free speech to not be tortured with phone calls during dinner every, single, night?

I'd arguably be more upset about this due to the complete waste of resources and generation of additional litter.

(edit, as someone else has noted, there appears to be an opt-out. I'd have to say I'd argue in favor of letting them then. )

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An opt-out is a good defense that the companies should have done a long time ago to avoid criticism and getting into this situation in the first place. It's doubtful that too many people would take advantage of it, and the companies can just point and say "see, we allow an opt-out!".

But as a society, I think an opt-out is a poor thing to encourage. If the behaviour is not acceptable, why should people have to opt-out, instead of opting in?

They've had this for many years: http://www.yellowpagesoptout.com/

I really don't know, I'm a paralegal not a lawyer yet. Everyone in this thread is bringing up interesting points.

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