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I love how Texas is always trying to convince everyone they want to succeed and then they pull shit like this. Listen, Texas, you're poking the fucking bear and you're gonna get eaten up by the feds if you can't behave yourself.
Not a threat, just an honest promise of outcomes to your games.
I think you meant "secede" but this works too and it's really goddamn funny
Damn, you're right. I want to fix it but it is pretty funny how that changes the tone of my message.
Too bad it'll be lost on texans'.
😬 I'm Texan, born and raised, and unfortunately still living in Texas. No personal offense taken btw. Love the place, hate (some of) the people.
The DOJ prosecuted some dumbshits who made and shared memes on Twitter about voting by text.
That, in my view, was terrible prosecutorial discretion and a very slippery slope, that we're now sliding down.
This, is not that. This is a good old fashioned well funded, organized, and coordinated criminal conspiracy to improperly influence an election.
Who wants to take bets on whether any of the people responsible will be prosecuted, much less get any jail time?
I'll bet that they will be prosecuted, but they'll get a $50 fine and 2 months of unsupervised probation.
Did this idiot really think the feds wouldn't be able to trace thousands of robocalls?
Anyways, they better throw the book at this turd to make other would be offenders hesitate. But it will happen again without a doubt.
Honestly, the investigation shouldn't have been to able to do it this easily.
The only reason I can think of is that the organizers figured their only penalty would be fines and lawyers expenses, as long as they didn't go to the necessary lengths to hide themselves.
They could have purchased pre-existing shell companies, or created one overseas, and used those dummy corps to pay some American VOIP provider to run their automated call campaign.
Maybe they thought that if they did go that route, and somehow eventually got found out, their might actually be consequences.
Who knows. We'll just have to wait and see what comes of this.
issued a cease-and-desist order
WTF, shouldn't interfering in an election on that level deserve a 5yr prison term?
And cops arriving with a warrant to search and preserve their records before even announcing anything.
And an immediate end to their corporate charter at every chain in the process.
This is the first half of a proper sentence. The second is personal charges against all directors or and/or major stockholders for the crimes had they been committed personally.
Republican election interference? Whaaaaatttt?
This is the best summary I could come up with:
An anti-voting robocall that used an artificially generated clone of President Biden's voice has been traced to a Texas company called Life Corporation "and an individual named Walter Monk," according to an announcement by New Hampshire Attorney General John Formella yesterday.
The robocalls "illegally spoofed their caller ID information to appear to come from a number belonging to a former New Hampshire Democratic Party Chair," the AG's office said.
Formella, a Republican, said that "AI-generated recordings used to deceive voters have the potential to have devastating effects on the democratic election process."
The New York Times reports that "a subsidiary of Life Corporation called Voice Broadcasting Corp., which identifies Mr. Monk as its founder on its website, has received numerous payments from the Republican Party’s state committee in Delaware, most recently in 2022, as well as payments from congressional candidates in both parties."
"The FCC may proceed to require other network providers affiliated with Lingo to block its traffic should the company continue this behavior," the agency said.
The FCC is separately planning a vote to declare that the use of AI-generated voices in robocalls is illegal under the Telephone Consumer Protection Act.
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Walter Monk
You know what to do fediverse.