There is a HEINOUS bill, House bill H.R. 3035—aka the "Mobile Informational Call Act Of 2011"—making its way through Congress right now, and it's going to affect every cell phone user in this country. The bill aims to give telemarketers, bill collectors, and similar douchebags complete, unfettered access to your cell phone number. If you aren't on an unlimited cell phone plan, this means that YOU will be charged for every minute these scum suckers can waste when calling you.
More importantly to the Congressional Vermin Hordes, passage of this bill will allow them to robocall us with "information" about why we should vote for them! How convenient! Hey, forget taxing the pigs on Wall Street a half of a percent more. Forget keeping the air and water in a non-poisonous state. Forget about the economy! To these "people" it's all about finding "new and innovative" ways to destroy the quality of our lives.
The bill was introduced by Republican Congresscretin Lee Terry of Nebraska, and all but one of the nine co-sponsors are also Republicans. Quelle Surprise! So who, besides our "elected representatives" think this bill is a good idea? The usual 1% suspects, of course: the Mortgage Bankers Association, the American Banking Association, and the U.S. Chamber of Commerce.
But there is a new way of letting Congress know we've had enough: Reverse Robocall. If these Koch-suckers think that receiving robocalls is so great, perhaps it's time to turn the tables on them.
Tell ya what Mr./Ms. Congresscretin…how about you publish your cell phone numbers so your constituents (you know, the people who elected you to serve as their representative) can call you day and all night with some messages of their own? I know I've got some good ones for you and there's plenty more where those come from. I can't wait until some enterprising individual actually does start doing blast emails of the cell phone numbers of the members of The Amalgamated Asswipes Of Our Government Union, and providing daily updates for those numbers. The twisted morons in Washington would need to have their staffers devoted all their time to little more than providing them with a new cell phone number or a temporary cell phone every day. Probably nothing would bring Washington's incessant attacks on us to a screeching halt faster.
What do you think?
This is pretty pathetic. If this sort of thing gets passed then someone might be able to make a premium cellphone service that only people you allow can contact you, or something. If that could be done with email as well I wouldn't be too opposed to that, but unlikely it wouldn't just turn into yet another money grab.
I'm surprised this hasn't been covered by TechDirt already, but then they've been in overdrive on stopping SOPA/PROTECT-IP/etc lately.