Bill circulating in Wisconsin Legislature to end spoof calls
Before the Left’s noise machine positions this as “GOP tries to make Spoof Calls Illegal in wake of Walker-Koch Spoof” (totally factual statement, but …) I thought I would point out that the bill was actually entered at the end of the prior legislative session (see the end of the article linked,) and there are probably good, not negative intentions behind it.
That said, these legislators need to rethink what they criminalize, since the Political activist spoof is out there as well. Each side seems to think it’s ok if their side does it, and both political sides think it’s awful when the other side does it. [ Compare O’Keefe/Breitbart to the Walker Call]
Should this type of “Confrontational / investigative / dishonest” political prank activism have exemptions in the bill, or should it be illegal?
Discuss, I’m interested in what you think.
Sen. Mary Lazich, R-Waukesha, and Rep. Mark Honadel, R-Milwaukee, authored a bill that would prohibit tricking the call’s recipient into believing the caller is someone they are not for malicious purposes.
“While use of spoofing is said to have some legitimate uses, it can also be used to frighten, harass and potentially defraud,” Lazich and Honadel said in an e-mail to legislators.
The bill language forbids a caller from intentionally providing a false phone number and convincing the person receiving the call that it comes from someone other than the actual caller.