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Is that supposed to always be bad? Unless the pages are used to promote some kind of fraud I don't think that's illegal. It's "dual use" like any other kind of

by costco 3y ago

Is that supposed to always be bad? Unless the pages are used to promote some kind of fraud I don't think that's illegal. It's "dual use" like any other kind of anonymity technology. Cloudflare says 90% of Tor traffic is malicious - does that mean hosting relays and using Tor should be criminalized? Regardless, that was just a minor point about one potential use of SIM farms. The proposal says they intend to make possession a criminal offence and they don't even have data on whether these devices are used for fraud at scale in the UK.

orf 3y ago
If you go around selling micro sized mobile phones close to a prison then you can plead all you want that it’s not fraudulent, it’s just for people with tiny hands and it’s ridiculous to imply that it’s anything other than a legitimate business. However, it’s not. It’s got one clear use case and one clear market. We started this discussion on sim farms and your very first point here (and in other places in this post) linked directly to the kind of thing that should, and hopefully will, be criminalised in the UK. Because it’s quite obvious what it really is, even if you apparently can’t see it? I find that quite hilarious.