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The FCC can go after robocalls because the law allows them to.

Back in the day, when there were proposed laws to make SPAM similarly illegal, the Direct Marketing Association (DMA) lobbied hard to get exceptions that would allow SPAM. And the rest is history.

Remember the aptly named "Can SPAM" act?

Can could mean:

1. toss it out, eliminate it

2. enable it

3. a metal cylinder it is packaged in




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