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That's a non-sequitur for fines. I'm going to be fined the same for speeding whether I'm late for my flight (no financial return), or I'm participating in an il
by sangnoir 3y ago
That's a non-sequitur for fines. I'm going to be fined the same for speeding whether I'm late for my flight (no financial return), or I'm participating in an illegal street race in which I win $10,000.
Some spamming campaigns do not expect revenue (e.g. recent convictions for a targeted voter misinformation robocall campaign whose desired outcome was to discourage the targets from voting). Tying fines to revenue won't affect the $0-revenue campaigns
- thfuran 3y agoI'm not saying that the fine should be some fixed percentage of the revenue, I'm saying that it absolutely must be high enough to ensure the expected profit of just eating the fines and carrying on is negative. A sufficiently small fraction of speeding is revenue-generating that it's likely not worth the trouble, but in that example, you should probably be fined $10,050 or something. Though speeding tickets are a bit different because they already also come with points and a path to revocation of license.
- thayne 3y agoIt impacts how large a fine needs to be to be an effective deterrent. If you get a fine of 2 cents per call, and you have an average benefit of 50 cents per call, then the fine is just an operating expense, and doesn't deter you from continuing the behavior.