With these, I can choose when and how much of it I choose to examine. Even radio and television advertising is tolerable. None of this holds true with telemarketing. Even if I firmly and abruptly hang up on the telemarketer, which I do, the interruption into my life cannot be undone. Perhaps something I was cooking is ruined because my attention was diverted by the telephone.
Telemarketing is a blight and a weed in our society.
It should not be tolerated.