Americans who sign up with the Federal Do Not Call Registry do so because they don’t want to be bothered by telemarketers. And when telemarketers try to call them anyway, the Federal government steps in and enforces the law:

Dish Network Dealers Settle With FTC Over ‘Do Not Call’ Charges

Two authorized dealers of the satellite television provider Dish Network, formerly known as EchoStar, have agreed to settle charges that they violated the FTC’s Telemarketing Sales Rule by calling consumers whose numbers are on the Do Not Call Registry.

However, when Americans sign up with one of the various junk mail opt-out systems floating around, and junk mailers send them junk mail anyway, nobody necessarily does anything.

Which I would say is a slight flaw in this whole “just let the junk mail industry run the junk mail opt-out system” logic.

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