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Why 'Cyber Crime' Should Just Be Called 'Crime'
netzar writes "CAUSE executive director Neil Schwartzman, in a post on CircleID, urges governments and law enforcement to treat cyber crime as what it really is: 'crime': 'When someone is mugged, harassed, kidnapped or raped on a sidewalk, we don't call it "sidewalk crime" and call for new laws to regulate sidewalks. It is crime, and those who commit crimes are subject to the full force of the law. For too long, people have referred to spam in dismissive terms: just hit delete, some say, or let the filters take care of it. Others — most of us, in fact — refer to phishing, which is the first step in theft of real money from real people and institutions, as "cyber crime." It's time for that to stop... This isn't just email. This isn't a war. This isn't "cyber." This is crime.'"
Read the other threads under this parent instead of trolling here, please. I'm proving why I'm right without uncertainty.
I completely agree with all you said.
The problem with getting rid of the "hate" crime category is that its a legal term. A person convicted of a hate crime has a more severe punishment then a non-hate crime offense.
Under the law, there is a difference between assaulting someone for some money and assaulting someone because their apart of a specific ethnic group.
For that matter, what will happen when a love crime is accidentally interrupted by a hate crime because of a religion crime? Hopefully the cops will be able to sort it out ... the *police* cops.
timothy
jrnl: http://tinyurl.com/c2l8yr / foes: http://tinyurl.com/ckjno5