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January 17, 2006 OSA Spreading Misinformation |
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The antis spreading lies? Well that's nothing new you say, and we agree. The information is brought to you as another public service by the Maggot Punks to prove once again the antis are lax in spreading the truth. In an e-mail that we received as part of our routine fundy monitoring Operation Save America had to warn us about the latest threat to our privacy (yes, the antis are concerned with their privacy but not the privacy of others). What was warned about was an apparent selling off of cell phone numbers to telemarketing companies and an urgent plea to put your number on the national Do Not Call list. Yes! You only have four days to do this. Other e-mails say seven, other have other dates. Why the confusion? Well because it's an urban legend. This urban legend just took a simple Google search to uncover. Snopes already had this myth covered in detail. Here is the context of the e-mail:
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FW: Cell Numbers Going Public I just did it and it only takes a minute. Call from your cell phone to do this. Jenny Brown JUST A REMINDER! Four days from today, cell phone numbers are being released to telemarketing companies and you will start to receive sale calls. YOU WILL BE CHARGED FOR THESE CALLS! These telemarketers will eat up your free minutes and end up costing you money in the long run. To prevent this, call the following number from your cell phone: (888) 382-1222. It is the National DO NOT CALL List. It will only take a minute of your time. It blocks your number for five years. PASS THIS ON TO ALL YOUR FRIENDS
James F. R********, This message contains information which may be confidential and privileged. Unless you are the intended recipient (or authorized to receive this message for the intended recipient), you may not use, copy, disseminate or disclose to anyone the message or any information contained in the message. If you have received the message in error, please advise the sender by reply e-mail, and delete the message. Thank you very much. (Just figured we'd leave this on because the Antis aren't terribly concerned with this message either) According to Snopes there was no plan on selling these numbers. Sure your number can be on a telemarketer's list provided that you provide that number to someone who sells the number to the company. However your phone company has kept the number private. The FCC chimed in by saying legislation prevents automated dialers from calling cell phones and that there is no deadline to receive phone numbers into the registry. While we here at the Maggot Punks believe exposing urban myths like this is important (because you never know how long it will take before one of these urban myths becomes a religion) we also found it important because it displays the inability for antis to check their facts. The Antis at OSA and ORW love to tell us how harmful birth control and abortions are and how abhorrent stem cell research is. Given the fact they did such a piss poor job on fact checking about this urban myth why should we believe their claims concerning reproductive issues and science? In any case it's still not a bad idea to put your number on the list. Also you may want to get your name off any junk mail lists by filling out this online form. |
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