The call spoofed Biden’s voice urging voters to stay home.

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    “Don’t do that again, now pay a cookie crumb for this highly illegal attempt to meddle with democracy”.

    Sigh.

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        I’ve been saying for years that fines for these issues need to be based on revenue, not profit, and tripled. Unless they’re selling their products for a 300% profit margin, they still lose money because of the bullshit. Anything else can still be justified as a cost of business.

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    I’m curious. And I ask, because US politics has normalised what would be clear corruption in most other places:

    Is the illegal part here spoofing Biden, or also a private company trying to manipulate the electoral process?

    If its only the former, then, what an absolute shit show.

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      A bit of both, but mostly about elections. The specific act used was “Truth in Caller ID Act by maliciously spoofing the number of a prominent local political consultant.”

      Though, the settlements also require the company to screen calls more aggressively and implement KYC.

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      Let’s just cut 30 jobs to make it up within the year.

      But while we’re at it, might as well just round it up to cutting 600 jobs, right? Then we can still have those bonuses!

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    Which telecom? I tried to read the article but got greeted with a broken, non-dismissible pop up that went off about having 848 intimate partners.

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      According to the article they’re called Lingo Telecom. I’ve never heard of them (which is probably a good thing).