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It is fraud. However, one thing has become crystal clear lately is that laws are only as good as we have systems in place that are willing and able to enforce t
by mingus88 7mo ago
It is fraud. However, one thing has become crystal clear lately is that laws are only as good as we have systems in place that are willing and able to enforce them.
And further, scamming people in the context of sex has always been easy because of the shame in admitting you fell for it.
Imagine filing a report that you spent thousands of dollars chatting with some random person, having the chat logs submitted as evidence, etc. it’s similar to why all types of sexual assault are rarely reported
- ghurtado 7mo ago> because of the shame in admitting you fell for it. I would argue that the reason has more to do with our utter inability to create common sense laws regarding anything "sex".
- jzb 7mo agoWhich goes back to the shame thing, really. Few people are willing to stand up and advocate for common sense laws because they don’t want to be associated with anything regarding sex. Politicians, whom are not generally noted for being averse to hiring sex workers, sure as hell don’t want to be advocating for them for fear of losing elections.
- aleph_minus_one 7mo ago> Politicians [...] don’t want to be advocating for them for fear of losing elections. This assumes that the politician plans and has a chance to become re-elected. If this is not the case, the arguments for not advocating for such laws become much less important for the respective politician.
- monocasa 7mo agoA politician can rarely enact laws alone, and the above issues typically apply to enough politicians at a time to make having a quorum difficult.
- galangalalgol 7mo agoIs there anywhere with one term limits for law makers with no staggered terms? If every member of a parliament is yoloing it, I'm not aure if things would be better or worse.
- actionfromafar 7mo agoDon't you think it also comes down to "exploitation" and not shame alone?
- ahnick 7mo ago> laws are only as good as we have systems in place that are willing and ABLE to enforce them. The 'able' part is the critical insight. Laws are too often passed that really have no ability to be enforced, but end up adding bureaucratic processes that law abiding companies have to follow. This also implies that governments need to actively clean up existing laws, which almost never happens unless there is enough support to pass a new law to actively supplant the old one.
- johannes1234321 7mo agoThere is also that international problem. If an South American is frauded on an US American platform, by an east European using an African fake chatter: Which legislation, which court is applicable? Which oversight authority should handle this?
- peterlk 7mo agoI don’t think this problem is that hard to solve, it just requires political will that doesn’t exist. The solution is to make it the platform’s problem. If the platform doesn’t want to deal with fraud, they don’t get to operate in that jurisdiction. Sue them into submission. If they don’t care about that geography, then there is now a gap in the market for a more local business to fill.
- Eddy_Viscosity2 7mo ago> I don’t think this problem is that hard to solve, it just requires political will that doesn’t exist This is equivalent to saying "I don't think the problem is hard, it just requires an a simple solution that doesn't exist". Problems are hard problems specifically because simple easy solutions for them don't exist.
- johannes1234321 7mo agoHow do I enforce that? - They probably got no office in my country. No representative I can arrest. Maybe I can confiscate money paid for ad's or something, however that probably runs via a payment system outside my control. So I have to punish my local companies advertising, but then it won't be my local branch of Coca-Cola advertising, but a foreign branch. Enforcing this, without international cooperation, is tough. And currently international politics aren't in a cooperative phase for large parts.