{"id":4876,"date":"2014-07-05T09:12:08","date_gmt":"2014-07-05T13:12:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/savethebalafalls.com\/?p=4876"},"modified":"2014-07-15T10:08:04","modified_gmt":"2014-07-15T14:08:04","slug":"proponents-deceptive-robo-calls-are-self-serving-and-illegal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/savethebalafalls.com\/?p=4876","title":{"rendered":"Proponent&#8217;s deceptive Robo-calls are self-serving and wrong"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In July, 2014, the proponent began making automated telephone calls to people&#8217;s homes and cottages in Muskoka.<\/p>\n<p>In a lame attempt to circumvent <a href=\"http:\/\/www.crtc.gc.ca\/eng\/info_sht\/t1032.htm\" target=\"_blank\">Canada&#8217;s telemarketing rules<\/a>, the proponent presents their unsolicited call as a survey, even though their call is actually commercial promotion, which would be illegal.<\/p>\n<p>The black text below is a transcript of the core part of their call, with our comments in red (<a href=\"https:\/\/savethebalafalls.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/RoboCall20140702.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">click<\/a> on it for a larger view).<\/p>\n<p><a href=\".\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/RoboCall20140702.pdf\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4053\" style=\"border: 2px solid black;\" src=\".\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/RoboCall20140702.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"775\" height=\"599\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In July, 2014, the proponent began making automated telephone calls to people&#8217;s homes and cottages in Muskoka. In a lame attempt to circumvent Canada&#8217;s telemarketing rules, the proponent presents their unsolicited call as a survey, even though their call is actually commercial promotion, which would be illegal. The black text below is a transcript of <a href='https:\/\/savethebalafalls.com\/?p=4876' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4876","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-background","category-3-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/savethebalafalls.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4876","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/savethebalafalls.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/savethebalafalls.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/savethebalafalls.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/savethebalafalls.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4876"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/savethebalafalls.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4876\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/savethebalafalls.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4876"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/savethebalafalls.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4876"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/savethebalafalls.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4876"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}