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Re:IRS Says ‘Dozens’ of New Crypto, Cybercriminals Are Ident... by kevin_thibedeau on Monday November 11, 2019 @06:02PM (#21509865)
The government shouldn't be picking who to prosecute based on ease of conviction. Wealthy criminals are just as guilty as poor ones.
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Re:IRS Says ‘Dozens’ of New Crypto, Cybercriminals Are Ident... by SkyBelow on Tuesday November 12, 2019 @08:38AM (#21513948)
If you could catch 10 child abusers or 1 child abuser within the next 2 months with your given resources, which would you choose?

We need to make it so that catching any of the 11 takes equal amounts of work, so when they pick the 10 of 11 to go after they rank it by severity of crime or other more reasonable factors than the criminal's wealth.

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Re:IRS Says ‘Dozens’ of New Crypto, Cybercriminals Are Ident... by HammockWarrior on Tuesday November 12, 2019 @01:43PM (#21516786)
A better analogy would be: would you rather catch 10 thieves who stole $10 or one theif who stole $1,000,000?
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Re:IRS Says ‘Dozens’ of New Crypto, Cybercriminals Are Ident... by SkyBelow on Thursday November 14, 2019 @09:27AM (#21535566)
If the metric employees (police, prosecutors, etc.) are judged by is how many criminals are caught, does the answer change?
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Re:IRS Says ‘Dozens’ of New Crypto, Cybercriminals Are Ident... by HammockWarrior on Thursday November 14, 2019 @02:53PM (#21538745)
For those employees maybe
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Re:IRS Says ‘Dozens’ of New Crypto, Cybercriminals Are Ident... by hanniabu on Monday November 11, 2019 @06:33PM (#21510078)
Well it seems in the US that just being poor is a crime
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