Florida Man Behind 100 Million Robocalls Hit With $120 Million FCC Fine (chicagotribune.com)

In a massive strike, the Federal Communications Commission issued a $120 million fine on a massive robocall spoofing operation it deemed a threat to public safety. From a report: The FCC announced Thursday morning that it would leverage the fine against Adrian Abramovich, a Miami man who the commission said made almost 100 million spoofed robocalls over a three-month period at the end of 2016. The FCC argued that Abramovich's operation made the phony calls to trick consumers into answering them and listening to his advertising messages. The fine was based on 80,000 spoofed calls the commission had verified.

A complaint filed by the FCC against Abramovich in June 2017 alleged he had broken the Truth in Caller ID Act -- which prohibits callers from falsifying caller ID information to disguise their identity with intent to harm or defraud -- in perpetrating "one of the largest -- and most dangerous -- illegal robocalling campaigns that the commission has ever investigated."

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Headlines that start "Florida Man" are awesome.

[slacktide]

They even have a twitter feed for it! https://twitter.com/_floridama...

Re:Capital Punishment?

[ChrisMaple]

Ammendment XIII, Section 1, reads as follows:

Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction. [emphasis added]

Quite simply, you're wrong. In addition, hard labor is not cruel (unless you're a liberal), nor is it unusual.