>Imagine, for instance, that a person wishes to send an invitation for a social gathering to a person she recently met for the first time. If she lacks prior ex

>Imagine, for instance, that a person wishes to send an invitation for a social gathering to a person she recently met for the first time. If she lacks prior express consent to send the invitation, and if she obtains the acquaintance's cell phone number from a mutual friend, she ostensibly commits a violation of federal law by calling or sending a text message from her smartphone to extend the invitation. And if she sends a group message inviting 10 people to the gathering, again without securing prior express consent from any of the recipients, she not only would have infringed the TCPA 10 distinct times but would also face a minimum damages recovery against her of $5,000." Who wants to receive calls from a friend of a friend to invite them to a party? Why not ask the friend to invite their friend if you want them to come? This does sound like spammy behavior to me, yet these laws are clearly unsuitable. Maybe people should have an option to be paid some small amount for each call from a number not on their whitelist that they accept. It would also have the interesting consequence of creating a market for wasting the spammers time.