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FCC Wants to Fine One Man Almost $13 Million for Making 6,000 Robocalls

posted by martyb on Saturday February 01 2020, @08:21AM   Printer-friendly
from the that's-one-way-to-garner-notoriety dept.

upstart from IRC writes:

FCC wants to fine one man almost $13 million for making 6,000 robocalls:

When the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) typically fines robocallers, they're usually operations that involve shady companies. Not so with the agency's latest proposed action, which targets a single individual. On Thursday, the FCC said it wants to fine one man $12,910,000 for carrying out massive robocalling campaigns in six states. In all, the person made more than 6,000 calls in California, Flordia, Georgia, Idaho, Iowa and Virginia using an online tool that allowed them to mask their calls as coming from a local number.

[...] In one campaign, for instance, the person made 827 calls to people in the town of Brooklyn, Iowa, "following the murder of a local college student and the arrest of an illegal alien from Mexico for the crime." [...]The agency says the robocaller's racist messages talked about a "brown horde" that the murder victim would have wanted the town to "kill them all." The robocaller even went so far as to phone the parents of the victim.

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  • (Score: 2) by isostatic on Sunday February 02 2020, @04:32PM (1 child)

    by isostatic (365) on Sunday February 02 2020, @04:32PM (#952738) Journal

    So $2000 would be ok?

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday February 03 2020, @01:57AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday February 03 2020, @01:57AM (#952968)

    Absolutely, it could be. This guy may not make much more than that in a month for all we know. We don't know if that number is right, but it should be a number very similar to what courts would determine in garnishment cases. There are also special court proceedings just for discovering assets.

    Remember, even if this guy makes $2100/mo after taxes, that doesn't mean we can instantly take it. That's why garnishment courts exist. To let the person actually be able to live and survive while paying restitution. I'm not opposed to taking away the majority of this guys disposable income for a year or two, but I'm very much opposed to doing anything that will push him towards homelessness and destitution. Those two being situations that are quite costly to society.

    Moreover, I'm not sure that financial penalties here were warranted at all. At least not in isolation. A month in jail sounds appropriate for the harassment of innocent people.

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