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The title here says the bill is about telemarketing, but the bill is pretty short and I didn't see anything about telemarketing. This is just about limiting bot
by daveFNbuck 8y ago
The title here says the bill is about telemarketing, but the bill is pretty short and I didn't see anything about telemarketing. This is just about limiting bots on "any Internet Web site, Web application, or digital application"
- anonymfus 8y agoSorry, I am not a native English speaker. I made the title by rewriting this sentence to fit into 80 characters limit: "This bill would, with certain exceptions, make it unlawful for any person to use a bot to communicate or interact with another person in California online with the intent to mislead the other person about its artificial identity for the purpose of knowingly deceiving the person about the content of the communication in order to incentivize a purchase or sale of goods or services in a commercial transaction or to influence a vote in an election." Specifically telemarketing was the only English term for "in order to incentivize a purchase or sale of goods or services in a commercial transaction" part that I recalled. Sorry if it was misleading.
- daveFNbuck 8y agoTelemarketing is specifically about marketing via phone calls. The phrase you want is "online marketing", although that is a bit longer. Almost all of the discussion in the comments thread here is about phone calls.
- anonymfus 8y agoSo is Wikipedia's definition "Telemarketing is defined as contacting, qualifying, and canvassing prospective customers using telecommunications devices such as telephone, fax, and internet" wrong? Or is it just misleadingly general?
- daveFNbuck 8y agoYeah, that definition is wrong, as evidenced by the confusion in this comment thread. I can't find a dictionary definition that matches what Wikipedia says. Every dictionary I checked [1] [2] [3] [4] specifies that telemarketing is marketing via the phone. Telemarketing is telephone marketing. [1] https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/telemarketing https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/telemarketing [2] https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/telemarketing https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/telemark... [3] https://en.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/telemarketing https://en.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/telemarketing [4] https://www.wordnik.com/words/telemarketing https://www.wordnik.com/words/telemarketing