Charities and the TPS

This is a blog that was posted by us last June and is possibly an issue to revisit. I tend to agree with a comment posted about this subject that charities should not be given special status solely because they are a charity. This would open the floodgates for telemarketing or other contact centre based companies using charities to get their services promoted. Would we then see companies saying things like “For every phone contract that is taken out we donate X amount to charity” Now this is only an example but you can see where I am going with this. Charity calls should be treated the same as any other commercial calls and people should have the right to block them if they do not wish to receive them.

Does anybody have a different view?