Discussion: Idaho White Nationalist Is Harassing Communities With Racist Robocalls

What is this guy’s source of income? He should be hounded out of any income he is getting

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It frees up a lot of spare time for little hobbies like this when you’ve never been on one single date in your entire life.

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Am I wrong to think that clowns like this are more likely to motivate those on the left than the right to go out to vote?

This works much better than clowns like Tucker Carlson, whose racism is shrouded in a thin veneer of normalcy so racists who watch him can tell themselves they aren’t really racist.

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This guy texts 2 instead of “to” because…that’s a big space and time saver? Or he doesn’t know whether it’s supposed to be “to,” “too,” or “two”? I’m going with the latter.

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There’s something about Tucker Carlson that just doesn’t seem quite “normal” to me. And the guy in the article has a cute Einheitsmütze, doesn’t he? Completely normal ski cap, innit?

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I remember when I had my first beer.

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Please proceed, moron…

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So, this is Amerika’s answer to Julius Streicher?

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I preferred the old days, when crazy people could only stand on the street and shout at buildings.

There’s one feature missing from my phone, one that I would dearly love to have. If the incoming call is from a number that’s in my contacts list, ring the phone. If it’s not, send it straight into voice mail without bothering me.

Can’t find it now, but I recently read that the majority of phone calls are now spam. I’m not sure how that can be stopped, but I’m open to suggestions. I suspect something as simple as charging 10¢ to place a call would be no burden on people, but would shut down most of the robocall efforts.

ETA: Turns out my Android has a “Do not disturb” feature that I believe I can set up to do what I want. Needs experimenting.

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Hate speech is never free.

Its costs can be staggering.

This little gnat is just another in a long line of opportunistic, ignorant free-speech abusers… his influence, however vapid, is unfortunately magnified by the broad reach of the internet.

He’s not even a footnote in the long story of free-speech abusers.

But FOX News proved over the decades, it we don’t at least LABEL their hate speech as such, and expose their falsehood as diligently as they expose their hatred, it can turn into a culture all its on.

And then become manifest as something like Trump.

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All robocalls should be illegal, except local governments for public emergencies and school closures. All human beings who initiate phone calls should be required to identify themselves by name, address and phone number on the caller’s request. All telephone carriers should be required to implement a code *7838 (STFU) for automatically report offending numbers to the FCC. Numbers that receive more than five *STFU complaints from different numbers in a single day, should be automatically disabled for 24 hours, except for 911. The Do Not Call registry should be permanent, with no exemptions for anyone.

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What I’m not getting here is how the calls are being made. Is he retaining a service to make these calls for him, or is it just a software that any jackass can download?

Weird that such a virulent racist would appear so suddenly. Guess he was radicalized.

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It seems offhand that there are a bunch of laws he’s violating – harassing phone calls are unlawful, as are robocalls to people on don’t-call lists (although perhaps the “political” nature of the calls gets him out of some of those rules). But he should at least be in court for this stuff.

This. Robocalls cost some amount of money. Follow the money. Every time–follow the money.

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If a call is from someone in my Contact List, my Android displays their name. Doesn’t yours ?

Yes it does. But it rings. I want it not to ring, and to route the call directly to voice mail without bothering me.

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Busy man.

https://www.splcenter.org/hatewatch/2018/08/23/just-after-anniversary-unite-right-charlottesville-hit-racist-robocalls-idaho-troll

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Hope your phone is newer than mine and you can find a way to have the phone not ring and then go to voicemail if the caller is not in your Contact List !!!

One of my unrelated pet peeves is getting an email I don’t want to continuing receiving, and when I click on “Unsubscribe” it takes me to a screen where I have to enter my email address … just lazy programming … they emailed me — they know my email address.

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It looks like this is built in to Android (I’m on 8.0.0). To test it, please pretend you’re from the IRS and that you’re going to “call the cops” on me and have me “placed in arrest,” and phone me. :wink:

(I swear to god, that’s the language they actually use in the recorded spiel.)