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This should already be prosecutable as wire fraud. Does an FTC rule make enforcement easier?
by eschaton 3y ago
This should already be prosecutable as wire fraud. Does an FTC rule make enforcement easier?
- jjtheblunt 3y agoi thought the same, then realized phone spammers are out of control still in the US, and they're not slowing down. What would actually work to shut these crooks down?
- janalsncm 3y agoHow about caning. It might seem foreign and extreme, but it works. A fine is just a cost of doing business. Even prison time would usually be spent at a minimum security prison perhaps even with work release. Barely a punishment. Those are just slaps on the wrist. You know what’s not a slap on the wrist? Caning. Caning would force these scammers to rethink their lives. It is used in Singapore as a punishment, a country widely seen as one of the least corrupt on the planet.
- NoZebra120vClip 3y agoOh, yes, good idea. Just track down wherever in the world the scammer lives, like Russia or Myanmar or Venezuela or something. Then you fly in a team of Navy Seals in a black helicopter to land at night on the roof of their tenement under cover of darkness. They storm in, restrain the scammer, and cane 'em real good with 39 whacks. Then they beat feet out of there before they can be detected or caught. You could GoPro all of this and then post it to a special "Cane of Shame" website. Exciting!
- jjtheblunt 3y agoCould skip all the actual action, and computer generate the same with "AI" and still run the Cane of Shame website.
- fmajid 3y agoChina, most likely. Good luck sending Navy SEALs without starting WW3.
- lost_tourist 3y agoCaning is barbaric and backwards. It will never happen here in the USA. It would normalize beating people and we already have enough of that illegally via the police
- janalsncm 3y agoCaning doesn’t normalize beating people any more than fines normalize theft. Far from barbaric, it is a regulated punishment that can effectively deter repeat offenders. And if some portion of prison time were replaced with caning, it would reduce the US’ overflowing prison population. I’m sure you would agree that given how barbaric US prisons are, the less time spent there the better. And as far as I can tell most of the police beatings are irregular, not regulated, and applied without judicial prescription or medical oversight. American police beatings are also usually legal or at least decriminalized however.
- jjtheblunt 3y agoPolice in the US at least used to carry batons but I've never seen one used.