Waiting until 2026 is so long
What has the EU ever done for us?
From Boston Harbor: “representation without taxation! Everyone drink tea!”
Well, apart from the free movement of people and goods, the common currency, the gdpr, the international students and the consumer protection what has the EU ever done for us?
Brought peace.
Uh peace, shut up.
Aqueducts!
This same thing, amongst other excellent recent pro-consumer rulings?
Who is us?
You, me, a few other people.
When will they mandate stopping scam calls and stealing databases full of offshored data?
They already are illegal. The problem is the police are corrupt and they're bought off, and the central government doesn't really care that much, so they don't do anything about it.
If you actually report these people sometimes they do get arrested, it just depends on who the chief of police in that area is. There's a reason they're all in the same part of India and it's because the police in that area have been bought off.
There's a reason they're all in the same part of India and it's because the police in that area have been bought off.
It's Kolkata right? That's the sense I get from watching anti scammer YouTubers like Jim Browning.
Yeah, there was a BBC documentary with him in it, and they actually demonstrate this. Various scammers are arrested and even sentenced, and then for some totally innocent reason a mistrial gets called, and it all has to go to trial again, and surprise surprise in the intervening time the police have managed to lose all of the evidence.
The only good thing about that whole case was that when they were arrested the scammers faces were broadcast all over national television in both India and the UK. Not that been shown in the UK will do everything, but I'm sure they don't have a great time in India because the locals hate them. Oh and also when the police are showing off their scammers, for some reason they make them hold hands with the police. It's really funny how unhappy they look about it.
Doesn't the use of VoIP often make these hard to trace, as well?
Yup. With VOIP, you can spoof any phone number. If this technology were fixed, 99% of spam calls would disappear, and Caller ID would be worth something again. Our government is either too lazy or bought-off to fix this problem.
They DID enact the national Do Not Call list and created heavy fines for people who violate that list, while knowing full well that they couldn't catch the spammers in the first place (because of VOIP spoofing).
Brussels effect baby
(Or is it Bruxelles? Brüssel?)
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