Richard Lloyd, executive director of the consumer group Which?, who chaired the nuisance calls taskforce, said: "This company has driven a coach and horses through cold calling rules and it's good the ICO has acted decisively.
It may no longer operate under cold war rules to consciously exclude representations of the upstart Chinese, or feel pressured to depict us as Fu Manchu monstrosities (except for the hideously backward BBC Sherlock episode The Blind Banker, replete with oriental lowlifes and lotus blossoms).
The ICO must use its new powers to full effect and hit hard any company breaking cold-calling rules.
For many, Russia is a dark, cold place, ruled by a controlling and corrupt elite who are hostile to outside intervention.
said: "Nuisance calls aren't just annoying, they can intimidate people too, so regulators must continue to slap down firms that treat cold-calling rules with disdain.
The first was implicit in the unwritten cold war rule against killing intelligence officers or political leaders: two can play that game, and once started it is hard to control, as Americans learned in the Lockerbie bombing.
Putin is trespassing on the post-Cold War rules.
By Mr. Asmus's account, here are the little war's bottom lines: Russia trashed the basic post-Cold War rule that borders in Europe would never again be changed by force; and, after taking aim "not only at Georgia, but at Washington, NATO and the West," it asserted it is prepared to use force again against its neighbors.
During the cold war, the rules of international behaviour were clear, guaranteed by the Mad-ness – mutually assured destruction – of the superpowers.
We aren't going to be left completely out in the cold (the old rules and the FTC provide some protection) but you better believe ISPs are going to exploit the gap.
