So make them DO THEIR JOB.

How about a law that holds the carrier who DELIVERS the call to a user is legally responsible for the law that was just broken, with huge punitive damages.

It's not unreasonable, the ONLY reason these calls exist is because CARRIERS profit from delivering the call.
,br>ALL the carriers are TOUTING (ie advertising and charging for) services that detect and block spam calls.

If it works well enough to charge people for then it works well enough to HOLD YOU LEGALLY RESPONSIBLE for delivering these illegal calls.

The problem is that carriers get paid to deliver the call (yes, even internationally) AND now they wanna get paid for NOT delivering the call (spam blocking services).

In what sense is this NOT a protection racket? (which is , actually, illegal)

When you say "crooks:", who do you mean ....
- actual organized crime?
- disorganized crime?
- MPA/RIAA and friends? (on their own cuz I'm not really sure which of they above they qualify for)
- Telecommunications Companies?
- Spammers?
- Politicians?
etc

Mostly on the receiving-end of the equation.....

If SCHOOLING was ACTUALLY about learning to think they'd still be teaching topics like logic and philosophy.

Formal Education is about learning everything the geniuses before you have learned, and not significantly much more than that.

Rote learning is taught, facts and figures to be memorized.

Actual "this is how to turn your brain back on and think your way out of a wet paper bag" is never even something considered A THING, let alone A THING WORTHY OF PRAISE let alone A THING WE TEACH YOU.

cut both ways

If the argument of whether use of The N Word is offensive is based on the color of ones skin (as a proxy for their RACE), then that is racism.

That is THE definition of racism, decisions based on the race of a person.

Sure I understand WHY the double-standard exists, but that doesn't change the fact that it's a double standard, nor that it is a RACIST double standard.

If you want to stop the use of The N Word, then stop using it, and THEN feel free to call out anyone else who uses it (irrespective of the color of their skin, their ethnicity, what country they were born in, etc).

Lather/Rinse/Repeat for all these "ways people communicate" and you will AUTOMAGICALLY get rid of a LOT of Hate Speech.

Or you could just shutdown Twitter and Facebook.

If "journalism" is driven by advertising (which is is, demonstrably) and the companies BUYING said advertising are refusing to place their ads on "appallingly horrible articles which are either tragic events or just horrible hype-fests of cheap clickbait journalism" then that means (by the laws of selection) that FUTURE NEWS articles will STOP BEING AN INCESSANT STREAM OF APPALLING TRAGEDIES, TRUMP_HYPE AND CLICKBAIT.

I for one cannot see how any part of this predicted change could possibly be bad.

if this is a FEDERAL issue, cannot legislators just PASS A LAW (you know, that's their actual job) that all financial institutions needs to clear funds within a specified (short) time.
Maybe those legislators who have worked out how to REINVENT MATHEMATICS so that encryption-backdoors-for-law-enforcement doesn't actually COMPLETELY destroy encryption can show these guys how things get done?

If a CEO was asked whether they'd be willing to BREAK THE LAW by EGREGIOUSLY violating the privacy of all users for almost a decade and the WORST consequence of their actions would be ... one annual-quarter worth of profit (in this case profit from 1/4 of one year out of the 7 years of abuse), it would be a NO CONTEST "go ahead and do it" every single time.

This proposal is SPOT ON, hit them where it hurts, it's the only punishment they understand.

You and I both know this will NEVER happen. FB Generates Billions of revenue and thusly pays A LOT (for some significantly large number) of taxes.

There is ABSOLUTELY ZERO CHANCE that ANY government will actually completely shutdown this business and stop it operating in any way.

WILL NEVER HAPPEN.

At best they *might* legislate some severe penalties, some checks-n-balances (mostly it'll be lawmaker check-books and bigger lobbyist balances). Facebook will continue to ignore the laws, the rules, the fines, the punishments .... because NONE of them are actually significant enough for FB to care.

If The Government has The BALLS to DO SOMETHING this fine would have been "past 4 quarters of profits, in consideration of your REPEATED violation of PREVIOUS privacy violation settlement deals".

With a STIPULATION that "this is a warning, we will double the fine to eight quarters of profit if FOR WHATEVER REASON the government finds cause to have a similar conversation with Facebook".

If you were a CEO about to approve your company doing something extremely questionable morally, ethically, and legally , and the WORST outcome anyone could suggest was "less than one quarter of profits, even after you did this over several years" ...... I can guarantee that there'd be ZERO chance said project would be cancelled.

And THAT, folks, is the ONLY metric which measures whether this fine is "adequate", or "a slap on the wrist".

Apple has demonstrated over many years that making CUSTOM chips specifically tuned for what and how their OS works adds HUGE benefits in performance and power consumption.

Making your own chips that are custom-tuned to suit your own operating system is a competitive advantage that pretty much nobody else in the world is going to beat. (Who else controls BOTH the hardware and the software for their phone?) That's already proven for CPU and GPU, and the next hurdle is the cellular/wifi chips (and then power).

The direct financial advantage of not paying the other guy for the chips nor (much of the) licensing is actually only the cherry on top of the icing on this cake.

Don't get me wrong ... "tipped wage" practices are PURE EVIL and no SANE country would let them be legal.

If you actually care about how wrong this is, go scream at your representative in government , they're personally and directly responsible for every law that gets passed.

The described practice is NOTHING NEW and COMPLETELY LEGAL, other businesses do it ALL THE TIME.

Is all the outrage here SPECIFICALLY at gig-economy businesses only?

If the ONLY thing that is NEWS is "...on the internet" then you need a case of STFU dropped on your ass because you contribute no value...

I though a significant percentage of contributors here had a clue, but apparently I was wrong.

Where's the huge backlash of outrage against FACEBOOK being involved in any way with currencies?

Or have all the people who GAVE A SHIT suddenly died?

Surely you're not suggesting that Facebook launching a currency would possibly be A Good Thing in any way at all?

Lets start with Failing The Laugh Test......

.....How does Libra help "the unbanked"? It's not like Facebook and friends are going to OPEN PHYSICAL TELLER LOCATIONS so that people with CASH can open an account.

Now that we've SHOT DOWN that FLAGRANT LIE it's obvious that Libra is not about helping anyone other than .... The Founders of Libra! The entire proposal is NOTHING MORE THAN an obvious attempt to short-circuit around existing financial regulations.

Do we want it SO BADLY that we'll hand EVERYTHING over to Facebook and whatever Cabal they have stooged into their little project?