Political Dirty Trick Season - Could Be Costly

[Cheerful Charlie]

Using AI to play dirty political tricks is a no no.

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The political consultant who admitted paying $150 to create a deepfake anti-Biden robocall has been indicted on charges of felony voter suppression and misdemeanor impersonation of a candidate.

Steven Kramer, 54, of New Orleans, also faces a $6 million fine from the FCC for the bogus call, which used AI-generated voice cloning technology to impersonate President Joe Biden and caller ID spoofing to hide the source.
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On Thursday, the AG announced Kramer has been charged with 13 felony counts of voter suppression and 13 misdemeanor counts of impersonation of a candidate, spread across four counties based on the residence of 13 New Hampshire residents who received the Biden robocalls.
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$6 million dollar fine? Giggle, Snort!

Man behind deepfake Biden robocall indicted, faces $6M fine

FCC wants to hit this political genius with first-of-a-kind punishment

www.theregister.com

 

[scombrid]

That 6 Million Dollar fine is pennies for The Heritage Foundation or whatever other billionaire class propaganda outfit wants to foot the bill. Billions of dollars are being laundered to Trump through a shell company. You think they aren’t going to set aside a little to cover expenses like this? They could hang Steven Kramer out to dry and I can only hope that he react violently if that happens.

Fines like this are no deterrent to people with enough cash. Trump was happy to pay the SEC a little fine for the illegal loan from his dad that kept his casino solvent just long enough to dump all the debt on dupes through a public offering. Complete and total fucking fraud and all he had to do was pay a tiny fine.

 

[bilby]

Any law that has only fines as the penalty for breaking that law, is only a law for poor people.

If you want to make rich people care about the laws they break, you need to hand down prison time.

 

[Jimmy Higgins]

Any law that has only fines as the penalty for breaking that law, is only a law for poor people.

If you want to make rich people care about the laws they break, you need to hand down prison time.

The State lacks the resources to put rich people (or those with access to large sums of money) in jail. See Donald Trump. Trials can take forever.

God bless America.

 

[Toni]

Any law that has only fines as the penalty for breaking that law, is only a law for poor people.

If you want to make rich people care about the laws they break, you need to hand down prison time.

The State lacks the resources to put rich people (or those with access to large sums of money) in jail. See Donald Trump. Trials can take forever.

God bless America.

In the case of Trump or at least his current legal woes, and ours, it is less a question of (his) wealth and much more a question of our political future: Does democracy fall? Because make no mistake: If Trump walks away free, we shall have lost our democracy and the US will not be the only one to fall. This will be repeated across the free world,

There is a great deal at stake: Do our laws and our Constitution pertain to everyone? Is the president above the law? And if not, will political parties prosecute their political opponents as a power struggle, rather than holding all of us equal before the law, as we aspire to do according to our Constitution?

It’s taking a long time not because Trump is rich ( he’s probably not) but because he’s powerful or once was and seeks that power again—and because very wealthy people want him in power against that he can make them wealthier, the State must be extremely careful and correct. Any trial Trump loses, he will appeal to the USSC. Which he stacked.